I see what you're saying, and that plot point may be a bit.... thin? However, the performances are great, the score is sublime but this came out in an era when we had Barbarino and Clarence Whorrly were flying a fake B2 and the former tries to steal a couple of nukes (fun movie by the way), two parallel disaster movies where an asteroid is about to assfuck the Earth as well as a comet doing the same thing, Barbarino taking his face off to swap with Nic Cage... It seems that the plot of the Rock is almost the most believable one! Haha
Seriously though, I like Shane Black as a screenwriter - but I highly disagree with him here.
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Callahan7 (965)
3 days ago
I don't agree or disagree with Shane Black. The OP is vague. He doesn't explain the reasons he made the comment.
The 90's was a great decade for films. Tarantino and many others produced some fine postmodernist (and other) movies.
The Rock is a solid action film. Well done. It is implausible though. I will suspend disbelief to a certain point if a film is good. This went past that point for me.
General Francis X. Hummel simply would not have participated in this event for reasons previously stated.
I also had a hard time with the John Mason character. It is likely that nobody ever escaped Alcatraz. Frank Morris and the Anglin brothers probably were swept out to sea and drowned.
Yet SAS agent John Mason escaped? What was he doing there anyway? He was a British agent. Alcatraz was a federal penitentiary for hard case American prisoners. A brit?! Possible perhaps, but highly unlikely.
As an action film I would rate this 8/10. Due to the unbelievability factor I lower my overall rating to 6/10.
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