Review – The Rock

Here’s another five minute movie stretched out over two hours by a lot of macho posturing and expensive action scenes. The plot’s nothing special: a chemical weapons expert (Nicolas Cage) teams up with a former-British-commando-and-ex-inmate-at-Alcatraz (Sean Connery) to go after rogue Marines who have taken over the Rock and are threatening to launch chemical munitions into San Francisco. I guess the intrigue is clever enough and the acting’s not too bad, but the big budget effects are what really keeps this going for as long as it goes. Mildly amusing