Reviews of The Rock 1996

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  • comrade_yui

    ★★★★★ Added by comrade_yui 1

    love how michael bay turns the basement of alcatraz into a weird derelict steampunk hollow-earth rollercoaster with videogame fire-traps and sewer levels

  • Matt Singer

    ★★★★½ Watched by Matt Singer 15 May 2017 12

    What a great freaking movie. So what happened? Was Michael Bay replaced by a Body Snatcher or something?

  • Patrick Willems

    ★★★½ Rewatched by Patrick Willems 16 Oct 2018 5

    One of the Great American Movies.

  • Jack

    ★★★★½ Rewatched by Jack 14 Aug 2022 3

    Nicolas Cage is my favourite Bond girl.

  • matt lynch

    ★★★★ Rewatched by matt lynch 23 May 2013

    The first strands of Bay DNA gloriously infect and begin mutating the quintessential American action film. Like a poisonous chemical rendered aerosol, it's about to destroy the city, and we never saw it coming.

  • Todd Gaines

    ★★★★ Rewatched by Todd Gaines 06 Dec 2016 36

    Nothing says extra sticky butter popcorn munchin' at its most macho of action adrenaline junkie rushes quite like Michael Bay's The Rock. It has a cast to Die Hard for, insane action, loud booming sound and full on BayNess. 

    The cast is bananas. Nic Cage is full tilt loco. Sean Connery brings his 007 swag. Ed Harris doesn't go all Man in Black as the sympathetic baddie. Michael Biehn gets to play his character from Navy Seals. That's not all!…

  • Christian Di Leo

    ★★★★½ Rewatched by Christian Di Leo 29 Apr 2022 6

    WELL, I ONLY BRING IT UP BECAUSE, UH, IT'S YOU. YOU'RE THE ROCKET MAN. *BEEP*

    🌧🎖🪦👨🏼‍✈️🤏🟢💨😵☠️👨‍🔬💣⏰️👶💦🪨🔫🪖🔗👨🏻‍🦳🪨🚁🔥🙇🏼🔥🕳🥷🚿🔫🪖👨🏼‍✈️💻🚀🏟🌊👨‍🔬🚀🤸🏿‍♂️🤜🟢🤮💥🏝🚗💨⛪️

  • Josh Lewis

    ★★★ Rewatched by Josh Lewis 01 Apr 2022 2

    Bay's best movies live in that exact intersection of ugly, unhinged American id and stunningly, nonsensical virtuoso craft. You can definitely see those Bay-isms starting to form here in the visual construction but my overall opinion on this remains mostly the same: fun central performances, dynamic images, solid enough that it laid the groundwork for what a decade of American action films would look/operate/structure like, etc. But outside of a couple choice moments of violence this is way too average…

  • Rafael "Parker!!" Jovine

    ★★★★½ Watched by Rafael "Parker!!" Jovine 15 Mar 2024 17

    Action! - Three Auteurs: Bayhem

    Often referred to by many as Bay’s best film, on this rewatch (my second overall), I could get behind that. It has all the style and great camerawork from Bay, with one of the most 90s Zimmer-rousing score and dumb, campy fun that, for better or for worse, has characterized Bay’s films. Plenty of awesome, cheesy quotable lines. Some will get a laugh out of you; others will make you cringe. Also, between this and…

  • Sean Gilman

    ★★★★ Rewatched by Sean Gilman 19 Jan 2025

    Watched this with the family, prep for our trip to San Francisco in a couple months. Wife thought the action, specifically the car chase, was shot and edited poorly: you couldn’t actually see what was happening. The kids liked it but thought it was very stressful and they’re now concerned about the existence of chemical weapons, which they apparently did not know about before we watched this movie.

  • Jade talks too much🎁

    ★★★★★ Rewatched by Jade talks too much🎁 16 Oct 2023 10

    “Your bescht? Loshers alwaysh whine about their bescht! Winnersh go home and fuck the prom queen.“










    Will always be thankful🙏to this movie & Sean Connery for the years I’ve spent annoying people with that particular bad impression. You have to say it exactly as I wrote it.😝

    Anyway, what a cool movie.🔥🔥🔥
    90s Nic Cage action is too fun.

    I’ve always thought the music in this sounds like the Titanic theme.🤔🎶

    This would deserve a 9 but I’m bumping it to a full 10 because John Mason’s daughter was called Jade and I like hearing my own name in movies.
    (😬Don’t judge)
    My rating system is perfect.👌

  • Evan

    ★★★½ Watched by Evan 05 Jul 2014 7

    Bay made something above average
    It's actually pretty solid
    Nicolas Cage is gold

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