Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris
A mild-mannered chemist and an ex-con must lead the counterstrike when soldiers threaten a nerve gas attack from Alcatraz against San Francisco.
DVD Release Date: December 2, 1997
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May 22, 2009Great action film with good effects and a reasonable plot. Connery is cool for once and the gunfights rock hehe but Nic Cage sucks ass as usual. Probably Bays best film to date on his own, its explosive fun with many many great sequences. The yellow sports car gunning down the h...( read more)
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April 5, 2009Fantastic 90's action. Con Air, Face/Off, Speed and The Rock are all great films we will never likely see again. With studios always chasing that PG-13 Rating even the Die Hard franchise has gone down the shitter. At least we can revel in previous examples of pure masculinity. It...( read more)
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February 21, 2009Not quite the film I had expected this to be, it?s very typical of the loud Hollywood Action movies of the 80?s and 90?s, which were much more about weapons and explosions than a good storyline. Sean Connery did liven the film up somewhat, which made this bearable, but Nick Cage...( read more)
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November 21, 2009Some may ask: "Why Michael Bay?". And although i sort of admire the director for giving the finger to Hollywood, I have to admit that most of his movies have been a disappointment. But The Rock isn't. Ed Harris is the perfect understandable villain, and if the movie had gone deep...( read more)
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November 18, 2009This one takes the cake for me as far as bad Michael Bay movies go. It's not bad enough to make fun of, just bad. Everything you'd want in a movie is thrown out the window with this piece of junk. I don't know where the idea of a disintegration machine came from, but it was just ...( read more)
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November 18, 2009I have trouble taking Sean Connery seriously anymore, and the suspension of disbelief is a little high (although I guess it gets to do that because it's an action movie), but this was a decently interesting and entertaining movie. Some characters I just hated though. Can I just s...( read more)
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Critic Reviews
April 12, 2002
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
A first-rate, slam-bang action thriller with a lot of style and no little humor. full review
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January 10, 2007This movie is so excellent, it's a completed movie!! I mean there is a success guns attack intrusion, a failed one, cars pursuit, many fights and shooting scenes. The soundtrack is amasing and the story is so nice. Even the hairdresser is really funny. Everything is just perfect, I'll never be bored to listen this movie.
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