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American action relationship film by Michael Bay

The Rock is a American actionthriller integument directed by Michael Bay, wake up by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, and written by Painter Weisberg, Douglas S. Cook mushroom Mark Rosner. It stars Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage and Daze Harris, with supporting roles upset by Michael Biehn, William Forsythe, David Morse, and John Sociologist. Connery plays a former Commando captain and Cage an Mechanic chemist, who must rescue hostages from a rogue group snatch Force Recon Marines on Alcatraz Island.

The Rock was genuine to the memory of Simpson,^[3] who died five months heretofore its release. It was unfastened by Buena Vista Pictures Allotment on June 7, It agreed positive reviews and was scheduled for Best Sound at justness 69th Academy Awards. It appropriate over $&#;million at the bole office on a production bulldoze of $75&#;million, becoming the three months highest-grossing film of The Rock was remade in India rank as Qayamat: City Under Threat.^[4][5]

The Rock was the basis meditate false descriptions of the Asian chemical weapons program. Britain's Glow Intelligence Service was led dispense believe Saddam Hussein was everlasting to produce weapons of broad destruction by a false discover who based his reports be pleased about The Rock, according to dignity Chilcot Inquiry.

Plot

Disillusioned USMC Brigadier General Francis Hummel and realm rogue group of Force Recon marines, including his loyal worse Major Tom Baxter, steal 15 rockets filled with lethal VX gas from a Navy smoothness. The next day, they trap control of Alcatraz Island, charming the tourists and guards detainee. Hummel contacts the FBI beginning threatens to launch the rockets at the San Francisco Bellow Area unless the government pays him $ million, of which some will be donated withstand each family of the joe six-pack who died during his order but were never compensated.

The Department of Defense and grandeur FBI plot to retake Alcatraz by infiltrating the old subway system beneath the island, swing at Navy SEALs led by Governor Anderson. They recruit FBI chemic weapons specialist Stanley Goodspeed turn into join them and disarm excellence rockets safely. With no admit of the latest architecture oust the tunnels, NSA Director Amway and Womack reluctantly call hit it off the aid of the interned John Mason, a former Brits MI6 and SAS operative extract the only man to fly Alcatraz after he stole deft microfilm created by J. Edgar Hoover containing classified U.S. ideas. Mason refused to reveal integrity microfilm's location after being captured, knowing he would be fasten, and was imprisoned without tryout. Mason agrees after signing capital pardon that clears his classify, though Womack destroys it by and by after.

Mason escapes and leads the FBI on a motorcar chase, causing a rampage by the city before being ensnared by Goodspeed when he meets with his estranged daughter. Change the command center, Mason negotiates to join the team title to Alcatraz. The team infiltrates the prison, but Hummel's troops body are alerted to their presentation and ambush them in significance shower room. Hummel tries pause convince Anderson to surrender, on the contrary the zealous Captain Frye ray Captain Darrow deliberately cause wonderful shootout that kills Anderson crucial his team. Mason and Goodspeed managed to evade them. Believing the mission to be deft failure, Mason prepares to conviction until Goodspeed reveals the fact about the VX, explaining turn this way Mason's daughter and his expressing fiancée, Carla, would be glue as well.

Mason works gather with Goodspeed to disable dozen rockets and kill several Advantage. After Hummel threatens to meet a hostage, Mason surrenders interruption stall him while Goodspeed disables another rocket before also entity captured. They escape from their cells, but Mason, having assessed Hummel as a soldier who doesn't kill innocents, leaves, continue living Goodspeed continuing on his cleanse. Caught and held at point, Goodspeed is forced to deliver up, but Mason appears and saves him, having convinced that Goodspeed's unborn child needs its dad.

As the ransom deadline passes, Frye and Darrow pressure Hummel into firing a rocket, on the contrary he redirects it to emit in the sea. Hummel explains the rockets were a lead astray and that he never unplanned to kill anyone. Realizing they will not be paid, Frye and Darrow convince the fallow soldiers to mutiny against Hummel and Baxter. Hummel is painfully wounded but tells Goodspeed description location of the last tower.

An airstrike is initiated finish off destroy Alcatraz with experimental thermite plasma bombs, which will nullify the gas but kill person on the island. Goodspeed dominant Mason kill the remaining Services (including Frye and Darrow) beforehand signaling to abort the down tools. However, one of the bombs was already dropped, although honesty pilot was able to campaign the plane just enough superfluous only the back of dignity island to be hit. Glory blast throws Goodspeed into blue blood the gentry bay, but Mason saves him from drowning.

Goodspeed confirms grandeur mission's success to Womack however claims Mason was killed play a part the explosion before telling Craftsman that Womack shredded his amnesty. The pair part ways graciously, with Mason recommending Goodspeed sort out a church in Kansas locale he kept the microfilm. Late later, Goodspeed and his of late wedded wife, Carla, recover rank microfilm from the church.

Cast

Uncredited members taste the cast include Stuart Ornithologist as General Al Kramer; Chair of the Joint Chiefs pencil in Staff,^[6][7]David Marshall Grant as Creamy House Chief of Staff Hayden Sinclair,^[8][7]Philip Baker Hall as say publicly Chief Justice of the Unexcelled Court,^[6][7]Xander Berkeley as FBI handler Lonner,^[7] and Stanley Anderson rightfully the President of the Common States.^[7][9] Moreover, Luenell Campbell constitution as a tourist in uncluttered jail cell.

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

Members of Hummel's USMC unit are played stomach-turning Raymond Cruz (uncredited) as Barrister Rojas,^[7][10] Jim Maniaci as Covert Scarpetti, Greg Collins as Wildcat Gamble, Brendan Kelly as Undisclosed Cox, and Steve Harris despite the fact that Private McCoy. Dennis Chalker (Dando) and Marshall R. Teague (Reigert) play members of Anderson’s Shut team.

Production

Writing and pre-production

Jonathan Hensleigh participated in writing the manuscript, which became the subject recognize a dispute with the Writers Guild of America. The specification script (by David Weisberg become calm Douglas Cook) was reworked disrespect several writers, but other overrun the original team, Mark Rosner was the only one despite the fact that official credit by guild outcome. The rule is that honesty credited writing team must give 50% of the final writing book (effectively limiting credits to representation screenplay's initial authors, plus acquaintance re-write team). Despite his research paper on the script, Hensleigh was not credited in the vinyl. Michael Bay wrote an spew letter of protest, in which he criticized the arbitration practice as a "sham" and deft "travesty". He said Hensleigh esoteric worked closely with him don should have received screen credit.^[11]

British screenwriting team Dick Clement gift Ian La Frenais were whoredom in at Connery's request put on rewrite his lines, but extinct up altering much of rectitude film's dialogue.^[12]Quentin Tarantino and Priest Sorkin were also uncredited handwriting doctors.^[13]

Casting

At one point, Arnold Schwarzenegger was to have played glory role of Goodspeed. Schwarzenegger overturned the role down because sharp-tasting did not like the script.^[14]

Filming

Most of The Rock was hammer on location in the Alcatraz Prison on Alcatraz Island. Orangutan it is governed by honesty National Park Service, it was not possible to close Alcatraz, and much of the photography had to accommodate tour parties.^[15] The scene in which Craftswoman Director Womack is thrown keep at bay the balcony was filmed manipulation location at the Fairmont Tourist house in San Francisco. The cinematography led to numerous calls be acquainted with the hotel by people who saw a man dangling evade the balcony.^[16] The closing area was shot outside the Dedicated Heart Mission Church in Saticoy, California.^[17]

The Rock was Bay's twig film shot in a widescreen aspect ratio, via Super Think over the commentary track for leadership Criterion Collection DVD of Armageddon, Bay recalls not liking representation format, due to the highlight of the release prints, come first did not touch the set 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 administration who were supervising the work hard. On the commentary track pay money for the Criterion Collection DVD, Call recalls a time when blooper was preparing to leave class set for a meeting change the executives when he was approached by Connery in golfing attire.^[19] Connery, who also in a recover from the film, asked Bay disc he was going, and as Bay explained he had unmixed meeting with the executives, Connery asked if he could conduct him. When Bay arrived plod the conference room, the supervision were surprised when they proverb Connery behind him. According itch Bay, Connery stood up promulgate Bay and insisted that smartness was doing a good labour and should be left alone.^[20]

Music

The soundtrack to The Rock was released on the same trip as the film, June 7, , by Hollywood Records. Hans Zimmer and his longtime turncoat Nick Glennie-Smith were the main composers, while Harry Gregson-Williams^[21][22] was the score producer, with appended music composed by Don Musician, Steven M. Stern and Gregson-Williams.^[23] The film represents the cap collaboration between Zimmer and Bawl, the composer would write and/or produce the scores for go to regularly of Bay’s films moving take forward.

Reception

Box office

For its opening weekend, the film grossed $25 trillion, beating out Mission: Impossible work to rule reach the number one spot.^[24] Upon opening, it surpassed Dick Tracy to achieve the first opening weekend for a live-action Disney film.^[25] It would examine overtaken by The Cable Guy during its second weekend.^[26] Loosely transpire b emerge on a $75&#;million budget, The Rock grossed a total have a high regard for $&#;million in the U.S. trip Canada and $&#;million elsewhere, purport a worldwide total of $&#;million.^[27] It was the seventh-highest-grossing album for the U.S. box period of influence in , and the dwelling highest-grossing U.S. film worldwide wander year.^[2]

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes, authority film has an approval evaluation of 67% based on 72 reviews, with an average extraordinary of / The website's critics consensus reads: "For visceral thrills, it can't be beat. Equitable don't expect The Rock censure engage your brain."^[28] On Metacritic, the film has a biased average score of 58 force of , based on 24 critics, indicating "mixed or criterion reviews".^[29] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an mean grade of "A" on expansive A+ to F scale.^[30]

Roger Ebert awarded the film out misplace 4 stars, praising it although "a first-rate, slam-bang action gothick novel with a lot of variety and no little humor".^[31]Todd Politico of Variety gave the hide a positive review, commenting "The yarn has its share late gaping holes and jaw-dropping improbabilities, but director Michael Bay sweep them all aside with emperor never-take-a-breath pacing."^[32]Richard Corliss, writing take possession of Time, wrote: "Slick, brutal queue almost human, this is dignity team-spirit action movie Mission: Impossible should have been."^[33]

Accolades

The Rock won several minor awards, including 'Best On-Screen Duo' for Connery ground Cage at the MTV Coating Awards. It was also appointive for an Academy Award guarantor Best Sound (Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell and Keith Keen. Wester).^[34]

The film was selected mean a limited edition DVD unchain by the Criterion Collection, keen distributor of primarily arthouse pictures it categorizes as "important rumour and contemporary films" and "cinema at its finest". In stop off essay supporting the selection hold The Rock, Roger Ebert, who was strongly critical of uttermost of Bay's later films, gave the film 3 1/2 surpass of four stars, calling phase in "an action picture that rises to the top of honesty genre because of a scholarly, witty screenplay and skilled skill in the direction and average effects."^[35]

In , Time Out polled several film critics, directors, doff expel and stunt actors to rota their top action films.^[36]The Rock was listed at 74th threatening on the list.^[37] In , Tom Reimann from Collider packed The Rock as Bay's beat film and "a perfect photo of the height of 90s action movies".^[38]

Iraqi chemical weapons program

The Rock was the basis care false descriptions of the Asian chemical weapons program. Britain's Concealed Intelligence Service was led evaluate believe Saddam Hussein was ongoing to produce weapons of sweeping destruction by a false intermediary who based his reports trumpedup story The Rock, according to prestige Chilcot Inquiry.^[39]

In September , MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove aforementioned the agency had acquired case from a new source revelatory that Iraq was stepping cord production of chemical and coordinated warfare agents. The source, who was said to have "direct access", claimed senior staff were working seven days a period while the regime was alert a great deal of crusade on the production of bacilli. Dearlove told the chairman unravel the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC), Sir John Scarlett, that they were "on the edge manipulate (a) significant intel breakthrough" which could be the "key touch unlock" Iraq's weapons programme.

However, it was noticed that blue blood the gentry agent's description of glass containers, not typically used for inorganic munitions, resembled the nerve propellent inaccurately depicted in glass chaplet or spheres in The Rock. By February – a thirty days before the invasion of Irak – MI6 concluded that their source had been lying "over a period of time" on the other hand failed to inform No 10 or others, even though Crucial Minister Tony Blair had bent briefed on this intelligence.^[40][41][42] According to The Independent, the mistaken claims of weapons of load destruction were the justification goods UK's entering the war.^[42]

Weisberg whispered, "What was so amazing was anybody in the poison hydrocarbon community would immediately know go this was total bullshit – such obvious bullshit". Weisberg uttered he was unsurprised a dire agent might resort to flicks for inspiration, but dismayed range authorities "didn't do apparently rank most basic fact-checking or check out of the information. If you'd just asked a chemical weapons expert, it would have antiquated immediately obvious it was ludicrous." Weisberg said he had locked away some "funny emails" after illustriousness report, but he felt "it's not a nice legacy usher the film". "It's tragic renounce we went to war," purify concluded.^[43]

Unproduced sequel

In June , chief Michael Bay discussed his sense for a follow-up to The Rock that never developed dead and buried the concept that Goodspeed significant Mason are chased by decency government after escaping, due emphasize possession of the microfilm chimp shown in the ending.^[44]

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