The Rock . Tucson Weekly . 06-27-96

The Rock

DIRECTED BY: Michael Bay

REVIEWED: 06-27-96

If you're looking for an entertaining action movie to fritter away a summer afternoon, this should be your first stop. Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage star as mismatched partners battling pure evil in the form of a chemical weapon that resembles a giant tube of fluorescent-green bath beads. The weapons are controlled by a whacked-out Vietnam vet (Ed Harris) on The Rock, a.k.a. Alcatraz, and the guys have to break in to the impenetrable fortress in order to save San Francisco, and possibly Oakland. Okay, so the situation is contrived, but the little twists of fate in this movie combined with genuinely funny dialogue make it a stellar piece of vapid entertainment. Extra bonus: Both Cage and Connery look surprisingly hunky in wet clothing.

--Stacey Richter

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