The Rock

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Call Number: Blu-ray Action Rock
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Downtown 1st Floor 1-week checkout	Blu-ray Action Rock	1-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown 1st Floor 1-week checkout	Blu-ray Action Rock	1-week checkout	On Shelf

Blu-ray disc.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1996.
Special features: Audio commentary by director Michael Bay, producer Jerry Bruckheimer, actors Nicolas Cage and Ed Harris, and technical advisor Harry Humphries; The rock world premiere; Navy SEALs on The range; Hollywood: Humphries & Teague; special effects for dive; action effects: movie magic; outtakes; secrets of Alcatraz; Jerry Brckheimer interview; theatrical trailers; TV spots; movie showcase: instant access to select movie scenes.
Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris, Michael Biehn, William Forsythe.
A general and his men take over Alcatraz Island and threaten to gas bomb San Francisco. A biochemical weapons expert and John Patrick Mason, the only man who ever successfully escaped from the prison, are called in to disarm the rockets.
Blu-ray, widescreen; Dolby Digital 5.1 Uncompressed (48 kHz/16-bit) surround, Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, 1080p High Definition ; (Special features: Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, 480i and 1080p High Definition).
This Blu-ray disc will not play in standard DVD players.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Good But Maybe Not Criterion Collection Good submitted by Meginator on August 27, 2022, 9:47pm This is a Michael Bay action thriller, which means that it comes with all of the requisite explosions and the preposterous set-up you would expect. That said, this story of a genius chemist-turned-action-hero(!) and an erstwhile secret agent has perfect casting behind it, complex moral motivations on all sides (except for Nic Cage’s character, who seems to be more or less on autopilot), some nice plot twists that lead to unexpected places, and a lot of dramatic tension. Some of the action is a little difficult to follow given the scope of the threat and the scale of the surroundings (it’s not easy to break into Alcatraz, after all), but this is a popcorn flick at heart and everything falls into place eventually. Taking the good with the bad here, this is a solid and well-acted action thriller that holds up really well.