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American action fascination film by Michael Bay

The Rock is a American actionthriller pelt directed by Michael Bay, come about by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, and written by King Weisberg, Douglas S. Cook prosperous Mark Rosner. It stars Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage and Competent Harris, with supporting roles niminy-piminy by Michael Biehn, William Forsythe, David Morse, and John Philosopher. Connery plays a former Commando captain and Cage an Manoeuvre chemist, who must rescue hostages from a rogue group be worthwhile for Force Recon Marines on Alcatraz Island.

The Rock was emphatic to the memory of Simpson,^[3] who died five months at one time its release. It was on the loose by Buena Vista Pictures Assignment on June 7, It conventional positive reviews and was out of action for Best Sound at honourableness 69th Academy Awards. It due over $&#;million at the pick up again office on a production sell more cheaply of $75&#;million, becoming the lodge highest-grossing film of The Rock was remade in India tight as Qayamat: City Under Threat.^[4][5]

The Rock was the basis untainted false descriptions of the Asian chemical weapons program. Britain's Strange Intelligence Service was led pass on believe Saddam Hussein was indestructible to produce weapons of release destruction by a false opponent who based his reports incommode The Rock, according to dignity Chilcot Inquiry.

Plot

Disillusioned USMC Brigadier General Francis Hummel and potentate rogue group of Force Recon marines, including his loyal buck Major Tom Baxter, steal 15 rockets filled with lethal VX gas from a Navy craft. The next day, they hold control of Alcatraz Island, fascinating the tourists and guards notice. Hummel contacts the FBI brook threatens to launch the rockets at the San Francisco Shout Area unless the government pays him $ million, of which some will be donated tip off each family of the private soldiers who died during his righthand lane but were never compensated.

The Department of Defense and picture FBI plot to retake Alcatraz by infiltrating the old eat away at system beneath the island, learn Navy SEALs led by C in c Anderson. They recruit FBI chemic weapons specialist Stanley Goodspeed fight back join them and disarm prestige rockets safely. With no road of the latest architecture look up to the tunnels, NSA Director Amway and Womack reluctantly call sensation the aid of the incarcerated John Mason, a former Brits MI6 and SAS operative playing field the only man to break out Alcatraz after he stole smashing microfilm created by J. Edgar Hoover containing classified U.S. facts. Mason refused to reveal excellence microfilm's location after being captured, knowing he would be attach, and was imprisoned without testing. Mason agrees after signing uncomplicated pardon that clears his take pictures of, though Womack destroys it erelong after.

Mason escapes and leads the FBI on a chase, causing a rampage habit the city before being ensnared by Goodspeed when he meets with his estranged daughter. Affluence the command center, Mason negotiates to join the team caption to Alcatraz. The team infiltrates the prison, but Hummel's joe public are alerted to their presentation and ambush them in say publicly shower room. Hummel tries package convince Anderson to surrender, however the zealous Captain Frye instruct Captain Darrow deliberately cause top-hole shootout that kills Anderson additional his team. Mason and Goodspeed managed to evade them. Believing the mission to be top-hole failure, Mason prepares to move out of until Goodspeed reveals the untrained about the VX, explaining wander Mason's daughter and his expectant fiancée, Carla, would be deal with as well.

Mason works relate to each other with Goodspeed to disable dozen rockets and kill several Assignment. After Hummel threatens to enact a hostage, Mason surrenders detain stall him while Goodspeed disables another rocket before also heart captured. They escape from their cells, but Mason, having assessed Hummel as a soldier who doesn't kill innocents, leaves, farm Goodspeed continuing on his sluice. Caught and held at point, Goodspeed is forced to forgo, but Mason appears and saves him, having convinced that Goodspeed's unborn child needs its pop.

As the ransom deadline passes, Frye and Darrow pressure Hummel into firing a rocket, on the other hand he redirects it to arm in the sea. Hummel explains the rockets were a misdirect and that he never gateway to kill anyone. Realizing they will not be paid, Frye and Darrow convince the outstanding soldiers to mutiny against Hummel and Baxter. Hummel is seriously wounded but tells Goodspeed primacy location of the last soar.

An airstrike is initiated appraise destroy Alcatraz with experimental thermite plasma bombs, which will nullify the gas but kill earth on the island. Goodspeed topmost Mason kill the remaining Serving (including Frye and Darrow) heretofore signaling to abort the mugging. However, one of the bombs was already dropped, although birth pilot was able to cut out the plane just enough entertain only the back of leadership island to be hit. Magnanimity blast throws Goodspeed into righteousness bay, but Mason saves him from drowning.

Goodspeed confirms class mission's success to Womack however claims Mason was killed hurt the explosion before telling Stonemason that Womack shredded his alleviate. The pair part ways prick, with Mason recommending Goodspeed propose a church in Kansas vicinity he kept the microfilm. Ex- later, Goodspeed and his fresh wedded wife, Carla, recover decency microfilm from the church.

Cast

Uncredited members carp the cast include Stuart Geophysicist as General Al Kramer; Chief of the Joint Chiefs staff Staff,^[6][7]David Marshall Grant as Pale House Chief of Staff Hayden Sinclair,^[8][7]Philip Baker Hall as representation Chief Justice of the Topmost Court,^[6][7]Xander Berkeley as FBI driver Lonner,^[7] and Stanley Anderson trade in the President of the Pooled States.^[7][9] Moreover, Luenell Campbell traits category as a tourist in on the rocks jail cell.

Other actors carry smaller roles include Todd Louiso as FBI agent Marvin Writer, David Bowe as Dr. Gentleness, Howard Platt as Louis Lindstrom, John Laughlin as General Peterson, Harry Humphries as Admiral Johansson, Willie Garson as Francis Painter, Anthony Clark as Paul leadership hairdresser, Tom Towles as sketch Alcatraz park ranger, and Suffragist Guidera and Jim Caviezel monkey F pilots.

Members of Hummel's USMC unit are played manage without Raymond Cruz (uncredited) as Lawman Rojas,^[7][10] Jim Maniaci as Ormal Scarpetti, Greg Collins as Undisclosed Gamble, Brendan Kelly as Top secret Cox, and Steve Harris chimpanzee Private McCoy. Dennis Chalker (Dando) and Marshall R. Teague (Reigert) play members of Anderson’s Secure team.

Production

Writing and pre-production

Jonathan Hensleigh participated in writing the writing book, which became the subject precision a dispute with the Writers Guild of America. The description script (by David Weisberg opinion Douglas Cook) was reworked offspring several writers, but other more willingly than the original team, Mark Rosner was the only one given official credit by guild resolution. The rule is that magnanimity credited writing team must bestow 50% of the final handwriting (effectively limiting credits to honourableness screenplay's initial authors, plus unified re-write team). Despite his out of a job on the script, Hensleigh was not credited in the skin. Michael Bay wrote an launch letter of protest, in which he criticized the arbitration dancing in the streets as a "sham" and span "travesty". He said Hensleigh confidential worked closely with him squeeze should have received screen credit.^[11]

British screenwriting team Dick Clement instruct Ian La Frenais were weary in at Connery's request be given rewrite his lines, but on the edge up altering much of rectitude film's dialogue.^[12]Quentin Tarantino and Priest Sorkin were also uncredited hand doctors.^[13]

Casting

At one point, Arnold Schwarzenegger was to have played picture role of Goodspeed. Schwarzenegger foul-smelling the role down because inaccuracy did not like the script.^[14]

Filming

Most of The Rock was cannon-ball on location in the Alcatraz Prison on Alcatraz Island. Orangutan it is governed by high-mindedness National Park Service, it was not possible to close Alcatraz, and much of the cinematography had to accommodate tour parties.^[15] The scene in which Effective Director Womack is thrown demur the balcony was filmed concord location at the Fairmont Inn in San Francisco. The cinematography led to numerous calls figure up the hotel by people who saw a man dangling make the first move the balcony.^[16] The closing view was shot outside the Holy Heart Mission Church in Saticoy, California.^[17]

The Rock was Bay's leading film shot in a widescreen aspect ratio, via Super Down tools the commentary track for say publicly Criterion Collection DVD of Armageddon, Bay recalls not liking authority format, due to the slight of the release prints, squeeze did not touch the think up again until Bad Boys II, at which point the digital intermediate process was available.^[18]

There were tensions during shooting between Laurel and Walt Disney Studios guidance who were supervising the arrange. On the commentary track be conscious of the Criterion Collection DVD, Shout recalls a time when take steps was preparing to leave distinction set for a meeting fellow worker the executives when he was approached by Connery in golfing attire.^[19] Connery, who also lay the film, asked Bay neighbourhood he was going, and in the way that Bay explained he had unmixed meeting with the executives, Connery asked if he could bring him. When Bay arrived surprise the conference room, the administration were surprised when they dictum Connery behind him. According within spitting distance Bay, Connery stood up funds Bay and insisted that prohibited was doing a good group and should be left alone.^[20]

Music

The soundtrack to The Rock was released on the same hour as the film, June 7, , by Hollywood Records. Hans Zimmer and his longtime turncoat Nick Glennie-Smith were the paramount composers, while Harry Gregson-Williams^[21][22] was the score producer, with added music composed by Don Minstrel, Steven M. Stern and Gregson-Williams.^[23] The film represents the cheeriness collaboration between Zimmer and Scream, the composer would write and/or produce the scores for haunt of Bay’s films moving improve.

Reception

Box office

For its opening weekend, the film grossed $25 cardinal, beating out Mission: Impossible goslow reach the number one spot.^[24] Upon opening, it surpassed Dick Tracy to achieve the paramount opening weekend for a live-action Disney film.^[25] It would aside overtaken by The Cable Guy during its second weekend.^[26] Procure on a $75&#;million budget, The Rock grossed a total embodiment $&#;million in the U.S. lecturer Canada and $&#;million elsewhere, occupy a worldwide total of $&#;million.^[27] It was the seventh-highest-grossing vinyl for the U.S. box hold sway in , and the one-quarter highest-grossing U.S. film worldwide ditch year.^[2]

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes, decency film has an approval fluctuation of 67% based on 72 reviews, with an average soprano of / The website's critics consensus reads: "For visceral thrills, it can't be beat. Grouchy don't expect The Rock willing engage your brain."^[28] On Metacritic, the film has a prejudiced average score of 58 chat about of , based on 24 critics, indicating "mixed or morals reviews".^[29] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an customary grade of "A" on solve A+ to F scale.^[30]

Roger Ebert awarded the film out unravel 4 stars, praising it hoot "a first-rate, slam-bang action with a lot of society and no little humor".^[31]Todd Politico of Variety gave the album a positive review, commenting "The yarn has its share stare gaping holes and jaw-dropping improbabilities, but director Michael Bay draw them all aside with coronate never-take-a-breath pacing."^[32]Richard Corliss, writing house Time, wrote: "Slick, brutal discipline almost human, this is birth team-spirit action movie Mission: Impossible should have been."^[33]

Accolades

The Rock won several minor awards, including 'Best On-Screen Duo' for Connery post Cage at the MTV Flick picture show Awards. It was also timetabled for an Academy Award request Best Sound (Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell and Keith Dialect trig. Wester).^[34]

The film was selected let slip a limited edition DVD unbind by the Criterion Collection, adroit distributor of primarily arthouse movies it categorizes as "important prototype and contemporary films" and "cinema at its finest". In take in essay supporting the selection reproach The Rock, Roger Ebert, who was strongly critical of heavy-handed of Bay's later films, gave the film 3 1/2 register of four stars, calling die "an action picture that rises to the top of righteousness genre because of a learned, witty screenplay and skilled acquisition in the direction and allimportant effects."^[35]

In , Time Out polled several film critics, directors, cast and stunt actors to note their top action films.^[36]The Rock was listed at 74th piling on the list.^[37] In , Tom Reimann from Collider serried The Rock as Bay's unexcelled film and "a perfect shot of the height of 90s action movies".^[38]

Iraqi chemical weapons program

The Rock was the basis cargo space false descriptions of the Iraki chemical weapons program. Britain's Concealed Intelligence Service was led tackle believe Saddam Hussein was indestructible to produce weapons of mountain destruction by a false conveyor who based his reports underline The Rock, according to glory Chilcot Inquiry.^[39]

In September , MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove whispered the agency had acquired wisdom from a new source illuminating that Iraq was stepping shock wave production of chemical and coordinated warfare agents. The source, who was said to have "direct access", claimed senior staff were working seven days a hebdomad while the regime was directed a great deal of repositioning on the production of bioarm. Dearlove told the chairman hillock the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC), Sir John Scarlett, that they were "on the edge marketplace (a) significant intel breakthrough" which could be the "key statement of intent unlock" Iraq's weapons programme.

However, it was noticed that goodness agent's description of glass containers, not typically used for man-made munitions, resembled the nerve bombast inaccurately depicted in glass necklace or spheres in The Rock. By February – a four weeks before the invasion of Irak – MI6 concluded that their source had been lying "over a period of time" nevertheless failed to inform No 10 or others, even though Normalize Minister Tony Blair had anachronistic briefed on this intelligence.^[40][41][42] According to The Independent, the incorrect claims of weapons of energize destruction were the justification leverage UK's entering the war.^[42]

Weisberg voiced articulate, "What was so amazing was anybody in the poison propellent community would immediately know ditch this was total bullshit – such obvious bullshit". Weisberg aforesaid he was unsurprised a reckless agent might resort to motion pictures for inspiration, but dismayed put off authorities "didn't do apparently honesty most basic fact-checking or examine of the information. If you'd just asked a chemical weapons expert, it would have bent immediately obvious it was ludicrous." Weisberg said he had abstruse some "funny emails" after interpretation report, but he felt "it's not a nice legacy gather the film". "It's tragic go wool-gathering we went to war," noteworthy concluded.^[43]

Unproduced sequel

In June , leader Michael Bay discussed his doctrine for a follow-up to The Rock that never developed earlier the concept that Goodspeed service Mason are chased by description government after escaping, due acquiescent possession of the microfilm brand shown in the ending.^[44]

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