Hummel is easily one of the best antagonists in film history. An honorable man who is willing to do whatever it takes to ensure that those who died under his watch receive justice. The best villains are those that you can root for in spite of their methods.
I agree! The interaction between the seal commander and hummel truly captures how damaged Hummel has become yet he still cares about American servicemen
The fact that he considers backing down at the end is one of my favorite parts of his character. He truly believes in what he's doing, but he really doesn't want to hurt innocent civilians in the process.
I still remember watching that fucking car chase in the theater... 2nd row! I got so fucking dizzy after a couple of minutes of nonstop shaking chase cam *lol*
Oh, man. As a violinist, I had the honor of performing on the soundtrack to this film. Composed by Hans Zimmer protégé Nick Glennie-Smith and recorded at the legendary Paramount scoring Stage M, it was a fantastic project to work on. Thanks for your review!
IMO there are three instruments that aren't used nearly enough in action soundtracks: bag pipes, organs, and violins. Great work with this one, I love this movies OST 🤩
Thanks, @@carljohan9265! Another soundtrack you might enjoy is the one we did for Enemy of the State, written by Trevor Rabin & Harry Gregson Williams.
@@garykuovideos Yea I remember seen that movie on TV during the weekend as a teen. That was back when movies were written to be both entertaining and thought provoking, and the defining trait of the actors were talent, not skin color. Ahh, good times.
Love this movie. And you can absolutely understand General Hummle's (spelling) motivation. The opening scene when he visits his wife's grave and his monologue show a man who has exhausted all options. But at the end when his bluff is called and he admits he can't murder thousands of innocent people is brilliant writing.
That’s actually one of my fav opening scenes in a movie. It slaps you right off the bat and sucks you in. Needless to say the movie holds your attention for the remainder.
@@Fortaker Good intentions but so desperate to get a result he deluded himself a bit. He’s a fairly sympathetic bad guy as they go. Also Ed Harris is amazing.
@@nature_laughslast6438 Ed Harris is The Man in any role he plays, and so is Connery. Damn, this movie and Red October are both perfect examples of how Connery's charisma and air of positive masculinity never diminished as he got older, he simply became cool in a different way compared to when he was younger.
When Mason tells his daughter "I'm not an evil man, if you can believe that, then that's a start..." makes him more sympathetic and relatable than any of the "modern characters" we're stuck with nowadays
Plus the moment Goodspeed covers for Mason in front of his daughter, painting him as willingly cooperating as opposed to them showing up to arrest him is to me extremely important. With just a few facial movements Connery conveys how much that gesture means to Mason, he's just met his daughter for the first time and the moment he heard those sirens he was grimly resigned to Jade viewing him as just another criminal... But then Goodspeed makes him a hero, a man working to help the FBI save lives, a man Jade can be proud to have as a father. As far as I'm concerned, that moment is when Mason first starts to like Stanley and boy does that prove vital for the missions success.
My favourite behind the scenes story from this film is when Sean Connery heard Michael Bay was having trouble with the producers so he invited himself along to a meeting and basically told them to stop pissing about and let 'the kid' as he called Bay, do his job, and everyone backed down because that is what you do when Sir Sean tells you to, and so what we got is a great example of what happens when you let directors and actors do their thing without interference from the moneymen.
I'd believe that. Connery was notoriously tough on directors who wasted time and Michael Bay, for all his faults, runs a very tight ship. I can imagine Connery respected this.
Granted, as a series of increasingly trash 'Bayformers' sequels have shown, it's possible for directors to have a little _too_ much creative control...
@@PeteTheGrouch That said, BAD BOYS II is still his masterpiece. It's the most pure distillation of Michael Bay's id, while being one of the most excessive, outrageous and repulsive movies ever released by a major studio.
The Abyss is an astoundingly good movie, another instance where CG was use sparingly and well. I watched it when I was young and the image of that guy slipping slowly into the darkness recognizing that he's about to die, has stuck with me ever since. The ending always felt a little weird compared to the rest of the movie, but it was still great.
@@Renkinjutsushi You know, I don’t think I’ve seen The Abyss all the way through. Out of James Cameron’s movies, this one never really popped up on TV.
@@Renkinjutsushi One of the things The Abyss does exceptionally well is that marine who can't handle the deep sea and slowly slips into madness. The way it's written and the way the actor plays it is fucking terrifying, and by the time they get to the submarine chase scene I was literally on the edge of my seat. Now that's a unique antagonist for a movie.
Check out A History of Violence by David Cronenberg starring Viggo Mortensen. Ed Harris only plays a smaller role in that excellent film but when he's on screen, he's mesmerising. The Abyss is pretty damn epic too.
I think one of my favourite things about The Rock is the antagonist isn't the antagonist "Because evil", Hummel has a set of motivations that could make actually make sense but definitely is not good motivations. I also like how for large part of the film, we're never quite sure if Connery's character is on any side but his own, and that side just happens to coincide with Cage's character, or whether he is actually going to stick his neck out to help anyone but himself. It's a reminder for me of how modern film is written for the attention span of a 6 year old; this person evil, this person good, they fight, explosions, good person win, while films like The Rock, with writing for actual adults, is able to achieve more development in it's opening then most modern Action Blockbusters.
Hummel was actually a good person deep down but knew he had to do some bad things to innocent people in order to hold the government who betrayed him and his men accountable. This was thoroughly established when he canceled the missile strike and told the men he recruited that his whole plan was a bluff. I also liked how Morse's character still stood by him and upheld the military code (so to speak) when the others mutinied because they knew they weren't going to collect the ransom. They were not one-dimensional, blatantly evil people like we see in so many other military movies. Mason similarly seemed to be a good guy caught in the middle of his government's selfish actions. The movie paints him as selfish in that he's only trying to help free the hostages and disarm the missiles because it's his way to freedom, which he then refuses to do when the special ops team is wiped out, but then decides to help Cage anyway even though he realizes the mission is by then almost impossible and the US government is not going to let him go anyway.
I just watched this movie last night and I had a grin on my face pretty much the entire time I watched it. It reminded me of a time when movies were made for entertainment. Yeah, it was a bit over the top in parts but it was still fun to watch. It had a great blend of seriousness, comedy, drama, character insight and action that you don't see in movies anymore. I'll be happy when movies are made for entertainment and not used for "THE MESSAGE..."
@@ribeye5394 By and large, we didn't mind so much simply because those were well-crafted movies with interesting topics, relatable characters, plausible plots and an intention to entertain, with messages that were neither malignantly destructive nor outlandishly retarded nor ham-fistedly shoved down our throats. And, in hindsight, because we had no way of anticipating where the ideological messaging would take our culture. Otherwise we'd have started dumping "liberals" and "progressives" into septic tanks circa 1990 at the very latest.
This movie was so much fun. I saw it in the theater with my brother and father. Sean Connery acting like an older Bond and Nic Cage acting like...well, Nic Cage...was awesome. This was the first Michael Bay movie that I saw before realizing what a Michael Bay film was. In short, THIS MOVIE ROCKS! (get it? no? ok).
@@booshmcfadden7638 I think the producers of the Rock knew exactly what they were doing. They couldn’t call Connery’s character James Bond for obvious legal reasons but they could give the Mason character a backstory and timeline that meshes perfectly with Connery’s Bond character. Too perfect to be just a coincidence. There’s videos on TH-cam that explain this in detail.
Michael Biehn..the unsung hero we needed and deserved in 80's and 90's! The ingredient that made every movie better! From the first 2 Terminators to the Abyss, to Aliens, to Tombstone and The Rock..exceptional!! THANK YOU!!!
“You’ve been asked by an old friend. You’ve been ordered by a superior officer. Now you’re being given your last chance by a man with a gun.” God I love that moment.
I don't know about classic but it sure was fun without all that Message bullshit and diversity they shove down our throats now. Now adays it would be toned down with half the cast gay and trans with a weak villain with nowhere near the acting ability as Ed Harris.
Too many men on screen for today's activist filmmakers. If it were made today Connery would be played by that annoying chick from Thor Ragnarok and cage would be played by brie Larson
The soundtrack is underrated, one of Hans Zimmer's finest works. I wore out the cassette until I had to break down and buy a CD player for the car then buy it on CD.
Word of advice. Do NOT play The Chase while driving. You’ll find yourself doing a 100mph on the M1 uttering “Ahh euuunnleeghh borrrowed yer Humvggheehhh!!!!” 🏴
This movie will forever be amazing. Everything you wanted in an action movie. "The Rock" is great by any standard. Ed Harris as the villain is just a cherry on top.
The Rock absolutely is "a deep and thoughtful insight into the human condition," as well as an outstanding action movie. Every character is relatable, morally ambiguous and human. I would have loved to have seen this the first time in the cinema.
Also: antagonist with understandable motivation and Michael Biehn playing leader of s-f team for third-fourth time ( Aliens, Navy Seals, The Rock, Terminators if you count them ). Also ambush in showers is MASTERCLASS of tension and reasonable escallation - note , that shooting starts when one of marines just tries to adjust weapon and drops few bricks, Seal responds instinctively and Hummel is unable to stop the slaugher. As for why last seal joins colleagues - watch video about "Smoke filled room experiment". Way how Cage bails out Connery in front of his daughter - very humane moment.
It was on purpose. The more "villainous" marine says something like "let's waste these f#ckers!" before pushing the bricks and triggering the shootout, especially since they were in a superior position.
God it all feels like yesterday when these blockbusters were the norm. And me in my 20s never appreciated it because I was into deep, intellectual, artistic films that weren't mainstream. Now all that has become mainstream and it's nauseatingly pretentious. Now I can totally chill and enjoy a good testosterone induced action flick and appreciate it for what it is. It's an unrealised art in itself. I feel like the movie goer equivalent to Ebenezer Scrooge and the late 2010s is the ghost hollywoods future showing me the dark times to follow, so enjoy these movies while we still have them.
If 90s action thrillers are the order of the day, I'm interested in your take on The Negotiator. We recently rewatched this and it was even better than I remember. And the cast is great.
Having re-watched it recently, I also really enjoyed it (as I'd forgotten a lot of it over the years). But one thing I'll never forget - Almost the entire film was plot 'spoiled' away in the trailer, down to Spacey's switch to Jackson's side. I remember the director/producers being really pissed about that.
@@jerseykaari anyone who saw the Terminator Genysis trailer already knew that John Connor was the new Terminator. On the bright side, nobody cared about Terminator Genysis
Now you dun hit it. The Negotiator is one of my all time favorite movies ever! The story was amazingly gripping and compelling, and the whole cast was perfection. It's a perfect film imo and deserves far more recognition.
I've noticed that bits of Zimmer's The Rock score gets/got added to a lot of action movie trailers (but would not be part of the actual soundtrack to the advertised film).
This movie is planted firmly in my "Can watch 10+ times and it never gets old" movie playlist. It's such a guilty pleasure for me. The music is fantastic, and Ed Harris's performance as Brig. General Hummel is so good that it almost feels out of place. Almost.
This is easily Michael Bay's best movie, bar none. I also really love this line: "Your best? Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen."
I was a bit disappointed that The Drinker didn't mention Bay at all in this review. This is like the only movie he made that was actually well written and well put together as a movie, rather than an embarrassing mess like Bayformers. I'm assuming it was because he had minimal involvement in the story writing. Still, you can see the potential he had here, that he squandered later on. I think that deserves a worthy mention.
@@Rock-xn3sp I don't hate most of the Bayformer movies (I think the first one is pretty good), but much like Bay himself they feel like wasted potential. Especially since they do have a lot going for them: the voice acting, the effects, the soundtrack, the OST, even some well-done action scenes and jokes. I particularly love the forest fight from the second movie. I'm a big Transformers fan and it's a shame that a franchise I love so much is seen as a joke because of some lackluster films.
I find The Rock a really interesting film because on the surface it’s as unapologetically blockbuster mindless entertainment as you can get but it has so many ingredients that you would never expect in this type of film: A leading man…in his 60s. An antagonist who’s complex, relatable, and whom you can sympathize with. Michael Bay actually showing some restraint and good taste in amongst all the action carnage he is so well-known for. An underrated gem.
The 90's were fantastic compare to the next decades. Everything was exuberant, awesomeness and balls-to-the-wall across all media Movies, TV Shows and Musics
Movie industry was going strong up until about 2014 and from about 2015 is when you start to see a big decline in the standards of movies. It is the year that Force awakens, Spotlight, Room, suffragette and the Danish Girl. It was the first signs of what we call woke Hollywood.
@@bighands69 2014 had Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Days of Future Past, Guardians 1, Winter Soldier, and a bunch of other straight-shooters, definitely merit to your point, though I think 2018 was pretty good too, Infinity War, Upgrade, and one I can never remember, I think some years have confluences of goodness
The Rock has the perfect level of seriousness: You can sit back and enjoy it as a popcorn film that isn't totally mindless, or appreciate that there is just enough there to nibble on if you want to, and be done when it is over, without the hangover of a really serious film that isn't nearly as entertaining. Has there ever been another actor as charismatic as Sean Connery?
The fact I could quote all of Connery’s one liners when you played them says something. I’m starting to remember a bunch of the other ones too. Damn, now I’ve got to go watch The Rock again. Or at least find my CD of the soundtrack.
Michael Biehn's third tour as a Navy Seal in the late 80's and early 90's movies, and second one where he is offed because of Ed Harris...shower room massacre is truly intense and Biehn was great as usual...I CANNOT GIVE THAT ORDER!
Biehn is such an underrated actor. This, Terminator and (especially) Tombstone. Everyone praises Val Kilmer for his performance, and rightly so, but the level of intensity Biehn brings is phenomenal.
13 hours is Bays Joker, so good it can’t possibly be directed by who is on the credits. Every bad director has one of those Todd Phillips Joker Michael Bay 13 Hours Paul W.S Anderson Event Horizon.
Thank the Lord. Action movies are so idiotic today that every one of them has to have a 125 lb. "badass chick" who takes out 5 dudes by herself. It's getting SO FUCKING OLD!!!!
@@jamestkirkcameron9189 fucking tell me about it. I rant about it to all my friends and they stay silent and look at me like I've got issues.. it's like most people have been brainwashed to think that's normal.
@@temite80 Yea,I know what you mean. I like strong female characters no problem. What I don't like is that the filmmaker's idea of a strong female is just giving her male traits and strength. Females can be clever, and manipulative, and deadly in other ways than beating up dudes twice their size for fucks sake.
@@jamestkirkcameron9189 I agree. It's not like females can't be great in martial arts/fighting, but it's when they make the fights unrealistic just to make the female characters strong where the Immersion gets totally lost.
Opening title sequence with the music the comms chatter and the one Marine on the ground "Their not coming for us are they sir?" That hits me every single time
Hail Drinker!! I saw this when I was still in High School and what stuck out for me was how well the characters were written. I also loved that we find out the only bad guys are the bureaucrats; they made sure the soldiers weren't paid, they did what they could to screw over John Mason and acted like assholes to members of both operations. Cage, Harris, Connery and Biehn were excellent!!
My mom rented The Rock for m when I was about 11 and was too sick to go to school. I loved it so much I've spent whole day rewatching it - 4 times in total. At the evening my mom decided to give it a watch and I asked her if I can sleep in the living room "because I like to have someone in the same room when I'm sick". She let me, but I'm sure she knew I'd be watching it from under duvet. Final score: 5 times in one day. Good times.
Agree that this was one of Cage’s best - that overlay of oddball still clung to him, making his character far more interesting than the average action hero
Ed Harris is SO underrated! Loved his character in this; the opening scene when his talking to his wife's grave lets you know his not your typical antagonist, just a guy who's sick of being ignored by his own Government. His also a great boxer in real life too!!!
Literally one of my favourites movies of all time. This movie is peak 90s for me and I love it. The background score still slaps 🔥 Pity they'll never make movies like this anymore
Drinker, I was in that movie and you showed my portion twice. AWESOME! It was fun working with Nick and it was a great movie. So you can see me the most at 4:42. I am the blonde FBI lab tech immediately to the left Nick when he is in the office and gets the white album. Great review as well. 🥃👍
Ah, when a daft film could be much better than it had any right to be. Happy days. That fan theory about Connery's character being James Bond? It fits so well, but out of sentimentality I always imagined Bond would keep, ah, riding off in to the sunset with yet another girl forever.
The Rock, especially the shower room scene, was the movie that made me decide to become a Marine. "Weren't the Marines the bad guys in that movie?" I said what I said.
@@Johnny_Nebulous I remember the internet flamewars between SEAL fanboys and Marine fanboys over the years about who would actually win that fight in the showers. Unfortunately for the SEAL fanboys, NOBODY is winning that fight from the low ground. They're absolutely fucked. Fortunately for actual SEALs, that's why they don't send their whole unit into an unsecured killzone all at the same time.
Well , to be honest, if that scene encourage you to join the Marines , you were the perfect "Jarhead" the Marines were looking for. LOL Ex-Army Tanker here ;)
I literally just watched this last night!? Loved it. Into that sort of mindless 90's action at the mo, currently 28, I was too young when they all came out
One of my all time favorites! Perfect Cage, perfect Connery, perfect excess, perfect everything! Peak Michael Bay. And, yes, John Mason is actually James Bond captured and imprisoned by the US, change my mind.
I went to SF, for a conference, right before this came out. We went to Alcatraz and it is not as big as they make it look. It made the movie a little better knowing some of the areas. Love this movie, like you said, still holds up.
His career is so weird, but his performances in 60 Seconds and Face Off are top tier. He has a really good filmography no matter what the dickheads say.
I saw this in the cinema and bought an ex-rental copy from HMV so my dad could see it. We watched it on a Saturday night, and the scene in the underground minecart chase, where Mason Calls Stanley a fucking idiot, had my dad laughing out loud. I always love that memory.
Also worth pointing out that the producers got Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais to add those quips into the script. They also polished Connery's last [unofficial] Bond Never Say Never and I think Connery had a hand in getting them involved in this film too.
The back and forth between General Hummel (Ed Harris) and Commander Anderson (Michael Biehn) during the ambush in the shower room is one of my favorite scenes ever
This was one of my favorite movies to watch with my dad when I was growing up. Along side terminator, predator and alien this is among my childhood favorites.
That's really weird, I literally just rewatched this the other day and thought what a great movie it really was. Shame they can't make films like this now. I'd love to see you do Usual Suspects by the way!
Every single one of these Extra Shots movies you have recommended have been epic. The ones that I already owned were treasured gems and the ones that I missed have been diamonds in the rough. Can't wait to see this one.
Funny, I almost wrote the same :-) And yeah, movies from 80s and 90s are great, and there are many movies I can watch again and again... There is almost no movie since 2k I would watch more than one time.
Best action line ever “then you’re stuck between the rock and a hard case” god I wish I’d have written that …and for Connery to deliver it … Scottish brogue and all … amazing!!!
The Rock is currently included with Prime (Amazon) in the UK at the moment, I watched it the other day and loved every minute of it just as much when I first seen it in the Cinema all those years back. Timeless because it doesn't play into any ideology.
Hummel was actually a Marine General. Not that big of a deal for most people, but it does mean a great deal in the context of the movie. The rogue Marines who ambush and kill the Navy Seals are way closer than Soldiers and Sailors are. They’re both under the Department of the Navy, who serve alongside one another on Navy Ships. They’re brothers, and the fact that their pitted against each other makes it that much more tragic. That hit me hard, even as a kid.
They died because the Pentagon would rather risk 80 thousand civilian casualties than give a fraction of their black budget to marine families they treated like garbage.
I absolutely love this movie and I'd recommend it to everyone. Great cast, great plot, and some fantastic moments that should go down in movie history forever. EDIT: Call me crazy, but I DO look at it as a deep and thoughtful insight into the human condition. Underneath all the bog standard Hollywood action and clever dialogue is a story about a career military man who's watched the men under his command get killed, or even left behind to be killed, for years without a single acknowledgement to their actions and sacrifice, because the government wants to sweep it all under the rug and call it a day. There's a real story in this movie, and I think it's one worth recognizing.
@@elanthys And this guy definitely had a point. I especially love Commander Anderson's appeal to both him and his Marines, reminding them of their duty above all else, despite agreeing with his sentiment. Mason even gets a dig at him later in the movie, and eventually Hummel realizes what he's done. The only thing I really don't like are the Marines who are suddenly acting like cutthroat mercenaries. Like, were they really just there for a paycheck?
“Welcome to The Rock,” is perhaps my favorite action movie line, made even better due to Sean Connery. It’s basically James Bond welcoming you to prison.
This movie becomes even cooler when you imagine that it's actually a secret James Bond movie.
Exactly! US captured James Bond
As far as I'm concerned, it really is Connery's last Bond film.
I’ve watched film hypotheses that say this fits the timeline of the Connery Bond films perfectly (when he was captured, when he was available, etc.)
As said, once you realize this is a James Bond Movie,
from the POV of other characters , it is an even better movie.
Yup, that one went completely over-my-head unti right now! cool!
Hummel is easily one of the best antagonists in film history. An honorable man who is willing to do whatever it takes to ensure that those who died under his watch receive justice. The best villains are those that you can root for in spite of their methods.
I agree! The interaction between the seal commander and hummel truly captures how damaged Hummel has become yet he still cares about American servicemen
The fact that he considers backing down at the end is one of my favorite parts of his character. He truly believes in what he's doing, but he really doesn't want to hurt innocent civilians in the process.
Plus, he wanted to destroy San Francisco. We need him now more than ever.
@@spankynater4242 LOL
His one mistake was underestimating his psychopathic henchmen.
"Dude you fucked up your Ferrari"
"It's not mine"
That line has always stuck in my head, I love this film so much
"Hey man, you f*cked up your Ferrari."
The look on Goodspeed's face is comedy gold. Cage nailed it.
I still remember watching that fucking car chase in the theater... 2nd row! I got so fucking dizzy after a couple of minutes of nonstop shaking chase cam *lol*
"I drive a volvo, beige one"
or
" In our current situation it could prove to be useful information, MAYBE!"
"Neither is this".
"oh well why not!" (before driving through the glass) Stuck in my head to this day. I use it all the time.
Oh, man. As a violinist, I had the honor of performing on the soundtrack to this film. Composed by Hans Zimmer protégé Nick Glennie-Smith and recorded at the legendary Paramount scoring Stage M, it was a fantastic project to work on. Thanks for your review!
You guys did an awesome job, the soundtrack is incredible.
Thank you, @@scratchy996!
IMO there are three instruments that aren't used nearly enough in action soundtracks: bag pipes, organs, and violins.
Great work with this one, I love this movies OST 🤩
Thanks, @@carljohan9265! Another soundtrack you might enjoy is the one we did for Enemy of the State, written by Trevor Rabin & Harry Gregson Williams.
@@garykuovideos Yea I remember seen that movie on TV during the weekend as a teen.
That was back when movies were written to be both entertaining and thought provoking, and the defining trait of the actors were talent, not skin color.
Ahh, good times.
Love this movie. And you can absolutely understand General Hummle's (spelling) motivation. The opening scene when he visits his wife's grave and his monologue show a man who has exhausted all options. But at the end when his bluff is called and he admits he can't murder thousands of innocent people is brilliant writing.
Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel to you.
That’s actually one of my fav opening scenes in a movie. It slaps you right off the bat and sucks you in. Needless to say the movie holds your attention for the remainder.
That opening scene actually made me think he was supposed to be the hero we were going to root for in the movie!
@@Fortaker Good intentions but so desperate to get a result he deluded himself a bit. He’s a fairly sympathetic bad guy as they go. Also Ed Harris is amazing.
@@nature_laughslast6438 Ed Harris is The Man in any role he plays, and so is Connery.
Damn, this movie and Red October are both perfect examples of how Connery's charisma and air of positive masculinity never diminished as he got older, he simply became cool in a different way compared to when he was younger.
When Mason tells his daughter "I'm not an evil man, if you can believe that, then that's a start..." makes him more sympathetic and relatable than any of the "modern characters" we're stuck with nowadays
Plus the moment Goodspeed covers for Mason in front of his daughter, painting him as willingly cooperating as opposed to them showing up to arrest him is to me extremely important.
With just a few facial movements Connery conveys how much that gesture means to Mason, he's just met his daughter for the first time and the moment he heard those sirens he was grimly resigned to Jade viewing him as just another criminal... But then Goodspeed makes him a hero, a man working to help the FBI save lives, a man Jade can be proud to have as a father.
As far as I'm concerned, that moment is when Mason first starts to like Stanley and boy does that prove vital for the missions success.
The government is the enemy.
“Back in my day!”
I heard that in the reboot, he’s going to be gay.
I’m almost positive that his daughter was banging her “friend”. She was very protective of her when he called out her name.
My favourite behind the scenes story from this film is when Sean Connery heard Michael Bay was having trouble with the producers so he invited himself along to a meeting and basically told them to stop pissing about and let 'the kid' as he called Bay, do his job, and everyone backed down because that is what you do when Sir Sean tells you to, and so what we got is a great example of what happens when you let directors and actors do their thing without interference from the moneymen.
I'd believe that. Connery was notoriously tough on directors who wasted time and Michael Bay, for all his faults, runs a very tight ship. I can imagine Connery respected this.
Granted, as a series of increasingly trash 'Bayformers' sequels have shown, it's possible for directors to have a little _too_ much creative control...
@@PeteTheGrouch i mean, on the other hand, 13 hours was fantastic
@@PeteTheGrouch That said, BAD BOYS II is still his masterpiece. It's the most pure distillation of Michael Bay's id, while being one of the most excessive, outrageous and repulsive movies ever released by a major studio.
@@PeteTheGrouch Pain and Gain wasn’t HORRIBLE.
“Mason, you alright?”
“Yes, perfectly okay you fucking idiot.”
Connery is such a legend. lol
That was one of my absolute favorite lines from Connery! Still a laugh riot!
Ed Harris is a legend. Mostly underappreciated. My favorite movie of all time is the Abyss.
I just spent this weekend watching both Enemy at the Gates and The Rock. Ed Harris was a great villain in both movies.
The Abyss is an astoundingly good movie, another instance where CG was use sparingly and well. I watched it when I was young and the image of that guy slipping slowly into the darkness recognizing that he's about to die, has stuck with me ever since. The ending always felt a little weird compared to the rest of the movie, but it was still great.
@@Renkinjutsushi You know, I don’t think I’ve seen The Abyss all the way through.
Out of James Cameron’s movies, this one never really popped up on TV.
@@Renkinjutsushi One of the things The Abyss does exceptionally well is that marine who can't handle the deep sea and slowly slips into madness.
The way it's written and the way the actor plays it is fucking terrifying, and by the time they get to the submarine chase scene I was literally on the edge of my seat.
Now that's a unique antagonist for a movie.
Check out A History of Violence by David Cronenberg starring Viggo Mortensen. Ed Harris only plays a smaller role in that excellent film but when he's on screen, he's mesmerising. The Abyss is pretty damn epic too.
I think one of my favourite things about The Rock is the antagonist isn't the antagonist "Because evil", Hummel has a set of motivations that could make actually make sense but definitely is not good motivations. I also like how for large part of the film, we're never quite sure if Connery's character is on any side but his own, and that side just happens to coincide with Cage's character, or whether he is actually going to stick his neck out to help anyone but himself.
It's a reminder for me of how modern film is written for the attention span of a 6 year old; this person evil, this person good, they fight, explosions, good person win, while films like The Rock, with writing for actual adults, is able to achieve more development in it's opening then most modern Action Blockbusters.
Hummel was actually a good person deep down but knew he had to do some bad things to innocent people in order to hold the government who betrayed him and his men accountable. This was thoroughly established when he canceled the missile strike and told the men he recruited that his whole plan was a bluff. I also liked how Morse's character still stood by him and upheld the military code (so to speak) when the others mutinied because they knew they weren't going to collect the ransom. They were not one-dimensional, blatantly evil people like we see in so many other military movies.
Mason similarly seemed to be a good guy caught in the middle of his government's selfish actions. The movie paints him as selfish in that he's only trying to help free the hostages and disarm the missiles because it's his way to freedom, which he then refuses to do when the special ops team is wiped out, but then decides to help Cage anyway even though he realizes the mission is by then almost impossible and the US government is not going to let him go anyway.
The Rock is a brilliant film. "I'll take pleasure in gutting you...boy!" Cracks me up every time. Candy Man's in it too 🤣
“Do you like the Elton John song Rocketman??”
“I don’t like soft ass shit”
🤣🤣🤣
This was still in a time that Hollywood knew how to make a movie.... how times have changed...
"I'm, I'm Stanley Goodspeed!!" "Of corsche you are"
@@stijnvdv2 Back in the days also when Roland Emerich also knew how to make a decentish film, unlike today...
Surely the drinker should have ended this vid with “go away now… or I’ll gut you like a fish” LoL
I just watched this movie last night and I had a grin on my face pretty much the entire time I watched it. It reminded me of a time when movies were made for entertainment. Yeah, it was a bit over the top in parts but it was still fun to watch. It had a great blend of seriousness, comedy, drama, character insight and action that you don't see in movies anymore. I'll be happy when movies are made for entertainment and not used for "THE MESSAGE..."
@@ribeye5394 By and large, we didn't mind so much simply because those were well-crafted movies with interesting topics, relatable characters, plausible plots and an intention to entertain, with messages that were neither malignantly destructive nor outlandishly retarded nor ham-fistedly shoved down our throats. And, in hindsight, because we had no way of anticipating where the ideological messaging would take our culture. Otherwise we'd have started dumping "liberals" and "progressives" into septic tanks circa 1990 at the very latest.
How many times did you find yourself saying “ Welcome to The Rock” in your best Sean Connery accent.
@@JediMindTrix420 At least 5 times lol
The message here was hands off the Pentagon's black budget
Not to mention it being Sean Connery's final Bond movie 🤣
Unless you count _Entrapment_ as such...
@@ZuluDFA Check out the video from the Pentex Productions channel on this one. It's WILD.
This movie was so much fun. I saw it in the theater with my brother and father. Sean Connery acting like an older Bond and Nic Cage acting like...well, Nic Cage...was awesome. This was the first Michael Bay movie that I saw before realizing what a Michael Bay film was. In short, THIS MOVIE ROCKS! (get it? no? ok).
Sean Connery was playing James Bond. The Rock is Connery’s last Bond movie. The story exactly lines up with his Bond storyline.
@@SETMKZ I like that idea. It fits even if the producers never confirmed it.
@@booshmcfadden7638 I think the producers of the Rock knew exactly what they were doing. They couldn’t call Connery’s character James Bond for obvious legal reasons but they could give the Mason character a backstory and timeline that meshes perfectly with Connery’s Bond character. Too perfect to be just a coincidence. There’s videos on TH-cam that explain this in detail.
why am I only seeing this comment now? that is an on-point pun, dude
Michael Biehn..the unsung hero we needed and deserved in 80's and 90's! The ingredient that made every movie better! From the first 2 Terminators to the Abyss, to Aliens, to Tombstone and The Rock..exceptional!! THANK YOU!!!
SEALS :D
“You’ve been asked by an old friend. You’ve been ordered by a superior officer. Now you’re being given your last chance by a man with a gun.”
God I love that moment.
every line hits hard in this movie
This is the line for me. Such a good sequence.
Yet another great 90s movie that wouldn't get made nowadays because of......."the message......."
Absolute classic film
I don't know about classic but it sure was fun without all that Message bullshit and diversity they shove down our throats now. Now adays it would be toned down with half the cast gay and trans with a weak villain with nowhere near the acting ability as Ed Harris.
Too many men on screen for today's activist filmmakers. If it were made today Connery would be played by that annoying chick from Thor Ragnarok and cage would be played by brie Larson
@@sclarin2 Aw man actually threw up in my mouth a bit there. Tessa the tink and Cheesy Brie.....
@@bartsullivan4866 It's a classic for me man but yeah I agree with everything else
@@bartsullivan4866 Right, because casual homophobia and transphobia is fun, yay!
The soundtrack is underrated, one of Hans Zimmer's finest works. I wore out the cassette until I had to break down and buy a CD player for the car then buy it on CD.
Word of advice. Do NOT play The Chase while driving. You’ll find yourself doing a 100mph on the M1 uttering
“Ahh euuunnleeghh borrrowed yer Humvggheehhh!!!!” 🏴
Agreed, I too had the soundtrack on CD, its an epic score - just on the brink of Hans Zimmer becoming one of the great names in film scores.
@@PHDiaz-vv7yo Got a speeding ticket on my way to work, driving to that song. No joke.
Totally agreed that this score is a masterpiece. But he had help. Nick Glennie-Smith was credited and his contributions are solid.
@@PHDiaz-vv7yo "Oh well WHY NOT!"
This movie will forever be amazing. Everything you wanted in an action movie.
"The Rock" is great by any standard. Ed Harris as the villain is just a cherry on top.
The Rock absolutely is "a deep and thoughtful insight into the human condition," as well as an outstanding action movie. Every character is relatable, morally ambiguous and human.
I would have loved to have seen this the first time in the cinema.
It was incredibly loud and absolutely awesome on the big screen!
I can’t stop thinking about Drinker’s “The Rock versus the Rock” joke, and I’m ok with that.
Just imagine The Rock arriving at the Rock and saying: "Let's rock!"
@@ZuluDFA That would rock
@@sh1rty no, no it would not
"They are not coming for us, are they?"
This line gives me chills.
Also: antagonist with understandable motivation and Michael Biehn playing leader of s-f team for third-fourth time ( Aliens, Navy Seals, The Rock, Terminators if you count them ). Also ambush in showers is MASTERCLASS of tension and reasonable escallation - note , that shooting starts when one of marines just tries to adjust weapon and drops few bricks, Seal responds instinctively and Hummel is unable to stop the slaugher. As for why last seal joins colleagues - watch video about "Smoke filled room experiment". Way how Cage bails out Connery in front of his daughter - very humane moment.
Abyss too
I've always interpreted it like the marine intentionally pushes the bricks to provoke the seals to start the shootout.
It was on purpose. The more "villainous" marine says something like "let's waste these f#ckers!" before pushing the bricks and triggering the shootout, especially since they were in a superior position.
Cue "oooooh! Navy Seals!" from Clerks
Well gee whiz John I guess we better get going
God it all feels like yesterday when these blockbusters were the norm. And me in my 20s never appreciated it because I was into deep, intellectual, artistic films that weren't mainstream.
Now all that has become mainstream and it's nauseatingly pretentious. Now I can totally chill and enjoy a good testosterone induced action flick and appreciate it for what it is. It's an unrealised art in itself.
I feel like the movie goer equivalent to Ebenezer Scrooge and the late 2010s is the ghost hollywoods future showing me the dark times to follow, so enjoy these movies while we still have them.
If 90s action thrillers are the order of the day, I'm interested in your take on The Negotiator. We recently rewatched this and it was even better than I remember. And the cast is great.
Having re-watched it recently, I also really enjoyed it (as I'd forgotten a lot of it over the years). But one thing I'll never forget - Almost the entire film was plot 'spoiled' away in the trailer, down to Spacey's switch to Jackson's side. I remember the director/producers being really pissed about that.
@@jerseykaari anyone who saw the Terminator Genysis trailer already knew that John Connor was the new Terminator.
On the bright side, nobody cared about Terminator Genysis
Now you dun hit it. The Negotiator is one of my all time favorite movies ever! The story was amazingly gripping and compelling, and the whole cast was perfection. It's a perfect film imo and deserves far more recognition.
That Hans Zimmer score needs more praises. It transformed a good action movie into a great action movie.
Nick-Glennie Smith and Harry Gregson-Williams also composed.
I've noticed that bits of Zimmer's The Rock score gets/got added to a lot of action movie trailers (but would not be part of the actual soundtrack to the advertised film).
I think Zimmer did the score for Dune???
This movie is planted firmly in my "Can watch 10+ times and it never gets old" movie playlist. It's such a guilty pleasure for me. The music is fantastic, and Ed Harris's performance as Brig. General Hummel is so good that it almost feels out of place. Almost.
The only reason I didn't give you a like is the phrase "guilty pleasure". Why guilty? It's balls out awesome.
@@temite80 Fair point. Idk, I guess I just figured most people think of this movie as 'just another Michael Bay movie'. Glad to see I was wrong.
Same here, if I am channel surfing and it is on I will stop and watch it every time.
It is peak Michael Bay, actually good
I have watched this so many times I know every dialoge.
This is easily Michael Bay's best movie, bar none. I also really love this line: "Your best? Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen."
13 hours: secret soldiers of benghazi was on par if not better. And I love The Rock.
@Greg Elchert James Bond met his equal.
Along with Armageddon - "He's got space dementia!". I still diagnose ppl with that 25 years later. And, I listen to the soundtrack.
I was a bit disappointed that The Drinker didn't mention Bay at all in this review. This is like the only movie he made that was actually well written and well put together as a movie, rather than an embarrassing mess like Bayformers. I'm assuming it was because he had minimal involvement in the story writing.
Still, you can see the potential he had here, that he squandered later on. I think that deserves a worthy mention.
@@Rock-xn3sp I don't hate most of the Bayformer movies (I think the first one is pretty good), but much like Bay himself they feel like wasted potential. Especially since they do have a lot going for them: the voice acting, the effects, the soundtrack, the OST, even some well-done action scenes and jokes. I particularly love the forest fight from the second movie. I'm a big Transformers fan and it's a shame that a franchise I love so much is seen as a joke because of some lackluster films.
I find The Rock a really interesting film because on the surface it’s as unapologetically blockbuster mindless entertainment as you can get but it has so many ingredients that you would never expect in this type of film: A leading man…in his 60s. An antagonist who’s complex, relatable, and whom you can sympathize with. Michael Bay actually showing some restraint and good taste in amongst all the action carnage he is so well-known for. An underrated gem.
"Nobody sees The Rock as a deep and thoughtful insight into the human condition," works on at least two levels.
The 90's were fantastic compare to the next decades. Everything was exuberant, awesomeness and balls-to-the-wall across all media Movies, TV Shows and Musics
The last great decade
Sex was still fun back then.
Movie industry was going strong up until about 2014 and from about 2015 is when you start to see a big decline in the standards of movies.
It is the year that Force awakens, Spotlight, Room, suffragette and the Danish Girl. It was the first signs of what we call woke Hollywood.
@@bighands69 2014 had Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Days of Future Past, Guardians 1, Winter Soldier, and a bunch of other straight-shooters, definitely merit to your point, though I think 2018 was pretty good too, Infinity War, Upgrade, and one I can never remember, I think some years have confluences of goodness
@@bighands69 Room was when we were introduced to cheesy Brie
The Rock has the perfect level of seriousness: You can sit back and enjoy it as a popcorn film that isn't totally mindless, or appreciate that there is just enough there to nibble on if you want to, and be done when it is over, without the hangover of a really serious film that isn't nearly as entertaining.
Has there ever been another actor as charismatic as Sean Connery?
Humphrey Bogart
Daniel Day-Lewis, Emma Stone, Mel Gibson, Morgan Freeman, George Clooney, Robin Williams...maybe a few others. Certainly the list is short.
The “direct down” shot from about 1 mile above Alcatraz as the plasma hits is still one of the best movie explosions to this day!
Go watch the making of...This explosion is actually really small and it blowed my mind, how they executed it.
The fact I could quote all of Connery’s one liners when you played them says something. I’m starting to remember a bunch of the other ones too. Damn, now I’ve got to go watch The Rock again. Or at least find my CD of the soundtrack.
Spotify's got the score, in case you're having trouble finding that CD.
4:15 very few actors in history have come close to the level of staring intensity Ed Harris conveyed in this scene. Legend.
Still the best Bay movie ever made, and one of the best action movies period. I hope they release it on 4K soon.
A bit more far fetched but still on par, The Island. Loved that movie too (mostly Scarlett Johansson)
Michael Biehn's third tour as a Navy Seal in the late 80's and early 90's movies, and second one where he is offed because of Ed Harris...shower room massacre is truly intense and Biehn was great as usual...I CANNOT GIVE THAT ORDER!
Biehn is such an underrated actor. This, Terminator and (especially) Tombstone. Everyone praises Val Kilmer for his performance, and rightly so, but the level of intensity Biehn brings is phenomenal.
Nic Cage won an Oscar and did The Rock, Con Air and Face/Off within a year.
Legend.
The cage holy Trinity , so much top tier cheese and action
Drugs can do that.
+ talent
Classics, all of 'em
Nic Cage ruled the mid 90s
Ed Harris is just a phenomenal actor . His performances are top notch.
It's one of those perfect "Saturday night, got a takeaway, turn on the TV and didn't expect it to be on" films... 2 hours of pure escapism
'The Rock' also showed Micheal Bay could actually make a good movie when he wanted! Easily Bays best film
along with Bad Boys and Pain & gain.
Dark of the moon is good too!
13 Hours is also really good.
13 hours is Bays Joker, so good it can’t possibly be directed by who is on the credits. Every bad director has one of those
Todd Phillips Joker
Michael Bay 13 Hours
Paul W.S Anderson Event Horizon.
@@Jabber-ig3iw You've got problem with Mortal Kombat? We might need to take it outside.
The Drinker conspicuously neglected to mention Michael Bay. Surely you're not saying Pain & Gain is a good movie??
Most underrated Bond movie of all time.
Except it isn't a Bond movie.
@@alaistairhamilton8838 watch it again
This and Face/Off are two of my favourite action and Nic Cage flicks.
Also The Rock is the last truly great James Bond movie. Change My Mind.
and con air
You must never hesitate
What a great actor Ed Harris is! He has been relegated to second characters way too many times. Hope he gets more main roles! Cheers!
And I don't remember a single strong, independent woman humiliating any of the highly trained, competent men.
Thank the Lord. Action movies are so idiotic today that every one of them has to have a 125 lb. "badass chick" who takes out 5 dudes by herself. It's getting SO FUCKING OLD!!!!
Red Notice comes to mind.
@@jamestkirkcameron9189 fucking tell me about it. I rant about it to all my friends and they stay silent and look at me like I've got issues.. it's like most people have been brainwashed to think that's normal.
@@temite80 Yea,I know what you mean. I like strong female characters no problem. What I don't like is that the filmmaker's idea of a strong female is just giving her male traits and strength. Females can be clever, and manipulative, and deadly in other ways than beating up dudes twice their size for fucks sake.
@@jamestkirkcameron9189 I agree. It's not like females can't be great in martial arts/fighting, but it's when they make the fights unrealistic just to make the female characters strong where the Immersion gets totally lost.
Opening title sequence with the music the comms chatter and the one Marine on the ground "Their not coming for us are they sir?" That hits me every single time
They're*
Amazing writing
Hail Drinker!! I saw this when I was still in High School and what stuck out for me was how well the characters were written. I also loved that we find out the only bad guys are the bureaucrats; they made sure the soldiers weren't paid, they did what they could to screw over John Mason and acted like assholes to members of both operations. Cage, Harris, Connery and Biehn were excellent!!
My mom rented The Rock for m when I was about 11 and was too sick to go to school. I loved it so much I've spent whole day rewatching it - 4 times in total. At the evening my mom decided to give it a watch and I asked her if I can sleep in the living room "because I like to have someone in the same room when I'm sick". She let me, but I'm sure she knew I'd be watching it from under duvet. Final score: 5 times in one day. Good times.
Agree that this was one of Cage’s best - that overlay of oddball still clung to him, making his character far more interesting than the average action hero
"Winners go home and Fu&k the prom queen."
Pure dialogue gold.
And then Goodspeed remarks that his fiance WAS the prom queen. Great comeback!
Godspeed drives a beige Volvo PV, not a Volkswagen. This movie was my childhood. Thanks for the great review.
Haha, noticed that too.
but his name is Goodspeed ;)
Came to the comments for the same reason. "I drive a Volvo. A beige one."
The soundtrack for this movie is just amazing!
Ed Harris is SO underrated! Loved his character in this; the opening scene when his talking to his wife's grave lets you know his not your typical antagonist, just a guy who's sick of being ignored by his own Government. His also a great boxer in real life too!!!
The Connery lines in this film are outstanding. As others have said here, it is arguably his final real 007 movie.
Literally one of my favourites movies of all time. This movie is peak 90s for me and I love it. The background score still slaps 🔥
Pity they'll never make movies like this anymore
Don't give up hope, Tarantino reckons it goes in cycles, it must be due to come back around soon
@@anon17472 Oh gods I hope so. Hope springs. At least for at long as it takes for the next idiot to f*** it up . . . sigh.
@@jkknight9209 surely the industry is unsustainable at this point?
I loved how Cage made COnnery at the end look like he's one of them to save face in front of his daughter.
Ahhh, good movies, good times...
“Well, geewiz John, I guess we better get going!” I always loved that scene!
@Haterator
That was such a sweet endearing moment!
Drinker, I was in that movie and you showed my portion twice. AWESOME! It was fun working with Nick and it was a great movie. So you can see me the most at 4:42. I am the blonde FBI lab tech immediately to the left Nick when he is in the office and gets the white album. Great review as well. 🥃👍
you are a part of cinema history!!
No way that's awesome 😊
Oh god I miss the 90s
Ah, when a daft film could be much better than it had any right to be. Happy days.
That fan theory about Connery's character being James Bond? It fits so well, but out of sentimentality I always imagined Bond would keep, ah, riding off in to the sunset with yet another girl forever.
The 4th Bond film of the 1990's.
One of the greatest movies of all time. I don’t care what anyone says.
Fully agree
Seen it so many times. Love
Amen!
Michael Biehn has also a great part, not everybody remember but was one of his best roles of his career
I totally forgot he was in this. Kind of a shame he didn't get more roles after, Terminator, Aliens, Navy Seals, The Abyss and this film.
@@bartsullivan4866 You forgot Tombstone, Some serious heresy right there
It's a shame Biehn never really made it to A-lister status, could have been great.
@@krald8421 "Why Johnny Ringo....You look like somebody just walked over your grave".
@@elanthys
Booze got him. Happens all the time, sucks every time.
The Rock, Con Air and Face/Off are the holy trinity of classic 90's action movies
I saw this about six weeks ago for the first time in decades and I'd forgotten just how good it is.
"I'D TAKE PLEASURE IN GUTTIN YOU BOY" 😂 So many iconic one liners in this movie
The Rock, especially the shower room scene, was the movie that made me decide to become a Marine.
"Weren't the Marines the bad guys in that movie?"
I said what I said.
Same, but the Air Force.
"Didn't the Air Force almost bomb everyone back to the stone age in that movie?"
I also said what I said.
Same, but the Navy Seals.
"Didn't the Seal team get completely wiped out like sitting ducks in an ambush?"
I also said what I said, also.
@@Johnny_Nebulous I remember the internet flamewars between SEAL fanboys and Marine fanboys over the years about who would actually win that fight in the showers. Unfortunately for the SEAL fanboys, NOBODY is winning that fight from the low ground. They're absolutely fucked. Fortunately for actual SEALs, that's why they don't send their whole unit into an unsecured killzone all at the same time.
I eat my pizza with pineapple.
"Eating pizza with pineapple is sacrilege!"
I said what I said.
Well , to be honest, if that scene encourage you to join the Marines ,
you were the perfect "Jarhead" the Marines were looking for. LOL
Ex-Army Tanker here ;)
This movie is so 90's... And is one of the reasons I still watch it.
i wish there were bigger and more direct hints that this is the last bond movie
I literally just watched this last night!? Loved it. Into that sort of mindless 90's action at the mo, currently 28, I was too young when they all came out
Me too. I’m 27 and absolutely love the late 80’s- late 90’s action movies. Watching most for the first time now thanks to the internet
One of my all time favorites! Perfect Cage, perfect Connery, perfect excess, perfect everything! Peak Michael Bay. And, yes, John Mason is actually James Bond captured and imprisoned by the US, change my mind.
I went to SF, for a conference, right before this came out. We went to Alcatraz and it is not as big as they make it look. It made the movie a little better knowing some of the areas. Love this movie, like you said, still holds up.
Well James Bond did have a daughter .... So.... Take that how you will lol
Its big but SF looks like some old trashed out town from the 30s. Worse now.
LOLs the second i got off the ferry on to Alcatraz i said 'Welcome To The Rock' in my best Sir Sean Connery voice
So glad I've grown up with movies like this! I'll do my best to pass these movies on to future generations
This and Con-Air were great 90s actions films.
This made me want to rewatch some Nic Cage classics, from the remakes 60 seconds and the bad lieutenant to face off... he has done some gems!
I also really liked Raising Arizona
His career is so weird, but his performances in 60 Seconds and Face Off are top tier. He has a really good filmography no matter what the dickheads say.
I'm partial to The Family Man myself.
I saw this in the cinema and bought an ex-rental copy from HMV so my dad could see it. We watched it on a Saturday night, and the scene in the underground minecart chase, where Mason Calls Stanley a fucking idiot, had my dad laughing out loud. I always love that memory.
Fantastic memories. It was one of those films that stands out for me in 1996.
Another solid gold edition of “Extra Shots”...thanks Drinker!
Also worth pointing out that the producers got Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais to add those quips into the script. They also polished Connery's last [unofficial] Bond Never Say Never and I think Connery had a hand in getting them involved in this film too.
The back and forth between General Hummel (Ed Harris) and Commander Anderson (Michael Biehn) during the ambush in the shower room is one of my favorite scenes ever
This was one of my favorite movies to watch with my dad when I was growing up. Along side terminator, predator and alien this is among my childhood favorites.
That's really weird, I literally just rewatched this the other day and thought what a great movie it really was. Shame they can't make films like this now.
I'd love to see you do Usual Suspects by the way!
Could it be the best Michael Bay movie?
@@ThePreciseClimber it is for me I think. I'm struggling to think of anything better.
Loved this movie. Also love your not so subtle nod that the movie makes for obvious references to Connerys Bond.
Every single one of these Extra Shots movies you have recommended have been epic. The ones that I already owned were treasured gems and the ones that I missed have been diamonds in the rough. Can't wait to see this one.
I was 13 when The Rock came out. I saw it 4 times in the theatre. I fucking love this movie.
I have always loved this movie. Fast paced, good cast. I'll watch it any time it is on.
One of my all-time favorite movies. God, I love movies from the 80’s and 90’s.
Funny, I almost wrote the same :-) And yeah, movies from 80s and 90s are great, and there are many movies I can watch again and again... There is almost no movie since 2k I would watch more than one time.
So many good movies in the 80's and 90's. So few today. Keep em coming.
Best action line ever “then you’re stuck between the rock and a hard case” god I wish I’d have written that …and for Connery to deliver it … Scottish brogue and all … amazing!!!
One of those rare super rewatchable action movies ever made. Connery steals every single scene he's in.
The last scene just before the air strike....... I can watch that over and over again and still love it......I got green smoke, I got green smoke!!!
I totally consider this one of my favorite James Bond films.
This movie is pure action perfection from start to finish.
The Rock is currently included with Prime (Amazon) in the UK at the moment, I watched it the other day and loved every minute of it just as much when I first seen it in the Cinema all those years back. Timeless because it doesn't play into any ideology.
Yeah, me too! And just realised the guy in the FBI bomb disposal lab was Red John!
It’s very satisfying greeting people at work at the start of the day saying “Welcome to The Rock” in a Connery voice.
Hummel was actually a Marine General. Not that big of a deal for most people, but it does mean a great deal in the context of the movie. The rogue Marines who ambush and kill the Navy Seals are way closer than Soldiers and Sailors are. They’re both under the Department of the Navy, who serve alongside one another on Navy Ships. They’re brothers, and the fact that their pitted against each other makes it that much more tragic.
That hit me hard, even as a kid.
They died because the Pentagon would rather risk 80 thousand civilian casualties than give a fraction of their black budget to marine families they treated like garbage.
One of my favorite movies. RIP Sean Connery
I absolutely love this movie and I'd recommend it to everyone. Great cast, great plot, and some fantastic moments that should go down in movie history forever.
EDIT: Call me crazy, but I DO look at it as a deep and thoughtful insight into the human condition. Underneath all the bog standard Hollywood action and clever dialogue is a story about a career military man who's watched the men under his command get killed, or even left behind to be killed, for years without a single acknowledgement to their actions and sacrifice, because the government wants to sweep it all under the rug and call it a day. There's a real story in this movie, and I think it's one worth recognizing.
Agreed. "Villain's got a point" is a great trope for layered characters, especially when used well like here.
@@elanthys And this guy definitely had a point. I especially love Commander Anderson's appeal to both him and his Marines, reminding them of their duty above all else, despite agreeing with his sentiment. Mason even gets a dig at him later in the movie, and eventually Hummel realizes what he's done.
The only thing I really don't like are the Marines who are suddenly acting like cutthroat mercenaries. Like, were they really just there for a paycheck?
“Welcome to The Rock,” is perhaps my favorite action movie line, made even better due to Sean Connery. It’s basically James Bond welcoming you to prison.
One of my favourite movies of all time.
Man this was absolutely 1 my favs of 90’s watched it over and over in fact think I’m gonna dust off my DVD player and watch it again thx Drinker!