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'''''The Rock''''' is a 1996 American [[action film|action]] [[thriller film]] directed by [[Michael Bay]], produced by [[Don Simpson]] and [[Jerry Bruckheimer]],
In the film, the [[United States Department of Defense|Pentagon]] assigns a team comprising an [[FBI]] chemist and a former [[Special Air Service|SAS]] captain with a team of [[United States Navy SEALs|SEALs]] to break into [[Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary|Alcatraz]], where a rogue general and a rogue group of [[United States Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance|Force Recon Marines]] have seized all the tourists on [[Alcatraz Island|the island]] and have threatened to launch rockets filled with [[nerve gas]] upon [[San Francisco]] unless the U.S. government pays $100 million to the next-of-kin of 83 men who were killed on missions that the general led and that the Pentagon denied.
''The Rock'' was dedicated to the memory of
==Plot==
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The [[United States Department of Defense|Department of Defense]] and the FBI plot to retake the island using a [[United States Navy SEALs|U.S. Navy SEAL]] team led by [[Commander]] Anderson, FBI chemical weapons specialist Dr. Stanley Goodspeed, and elderly former British [[Special Air Service|SAS]] John Mason, the only man to escape Alcatraz. FBI Director James Womack deceives Mason with the offer of a pardon and acquiesces to his request to move to a hotel, from which Mason escapes. After Mason leads the FBI on a destructive car chase through San Francisco, Goodspeed finds him meeting with his estranged daughter, Jade. As the FBI arrives, Mason expresses his regret for not being in her life. At the mission command center, Mason negotiates to join the team on Alcatraz, while Goodspeed fails to convince his pregnant girlfriend Carla not to travel to San Francisco.
The team infiltrates Alcatraz, but Hummel's men are alerted to their presence and ambush them in a shower room. Hummel tries to convince Anderson to surrender, but his new allies, Captains Darrow and Frye, deliberately cause a shootout that kills Anderson's team, except for Mason and Goodspeed, who remain undetected. Believing the mission a failure, Mason prepares to leave until Goodspeed reveals the truth about the VX.
Mason and Goodspeed work together to disable twelve rockets and kill several Marines. After Hummel threatens to execute a hostage, Mason surrenders to stall him while Goodspeed disables another rocket before also being captured. After Mason frees himself and Goodspeed, he reveals that he was an [[Secret Intelligence Service|MI6]] operative who stole a microfilm created by [[J. Edgar Hoover]] containing secrets of high-profile global figures and classified U.S. information. Mason refused to reveal the microfilm's location after being captured, knowing he would be killed and was imprisoned without trial, with his existence concealed by the FBI. Having assessed Hummel as an honorable soldier who will not kill innocents, Mason leaves but returns to Goodspeed, not wanting his child to grow up without a father.
The ransom deadline passes, leading Darrow and Frye to pressure Hummel into firing a rocket, but he redirects it to detonate harmlessly in the sea. Hummel explains the rockets were a bluff and he never intended to kill anyone, declaring the mission over. Realizing they will not be paid, Darrow and Frye kill Baxter and mortally wound Hummel, who tells Goodspeed the location of the last rocket before dying. Meanwhile, an airstrike is initiated to destroy Alcatraz with experimental thermite plasma bombs, which will neutralize the gas but kill everyone on the island. Goodspeed and Mason kill the remaining Marines before signaling to abort the attack, but one plane drops its bombs. The blast throws Goodspeed into the bay, but Mason saves him.
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==Cast==
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* [[Nicolas Cage]] as Dr. Stanley Goodspeed, [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]]
* [[Ed Harris]] as General Francis X. Hummel, [[United States Marine Corps|USMC]]
* [[Michael Biehn]] as Commander Charles Anderson, [[United States Navy SEALs|USN]]
* [[William Forsythe (actor)|William Forsythe]] as Ernest Paxton, FBI
* [[David Morse]] as Major Tom Baxter, USMC
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=== Writing and pre-production ===
[[Jonathan Hensleigh]] participated in writing the script, which became the subject of a dispute with the [[Writers Guild of America]]. The spec script (by [[David Weisberg]] and [[Douglas S. Cook|Douglas Cook]]) was reworked by several writers, but other than the original team, Mark Rosner was the only one granted official credit by guild arbitration. The rule is that the credited writing team must contribute 50% of the final script (effectively limiting credits to the screenplay's initial authors, plus one re-write team). Despite his work on the script, Hensleigh was not credited in the film. [[Michael Bay]] wrote an open letter of protest, in which he criticized the arbitration procedure as a "sham" and a "travesty". He said Hensleigh had worked closely with him on the movie and should have received screen credit.<ref>Welkos, Robert W. [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-05-21-ca-6461-story.html "'Cable,' 'Rock' in Disputes on Writing Credits"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190831022439/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-05-21-ca-6461-story.html |date=August 31, 2019 }}. ''Los Angeles Times'', May 21, 1996, p. 1.</ref>
[[Quentin Tarantino]] and [[Aaron Sorkin]] were also
British screenwriting team [[Dick Clement]] and [[Ian La Frenais]] were brought in at Connery's request to rewrite his lines, but ended up altering much of the film's dialogue.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Brew |first=Simon |date=2020-10-02 |title=The Rock: the crucial rewrite that got Sean Connery on board |url=https://www.filmstories.co.uk/features/the-rock-the-crucial-rewrite-that-got-sean-connery-on-board/ |access-date=2023-02-23 |website=Film Stories |language=en-GB}}</ref>
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===Box office===
For its opening weekend, the film grossed $25 million, beating out ''[[Mission: Impossible (film)|Mission: Impossible]]'' to reach the number one spot.<ref>{{cite news |title=The Rock' rolls at U.S. box office
|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1996/06/10/The-Rock-rolls-at-US-box-office/3156834379200/ |access-date=26 February 2022 |work=[[United Press International]] |date=10 June 1996 |archive-date=February 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220226220501/https://www.upi.com/Archives/1996/06/10/The-Rock-rolls-at-US-box-office/3156834379200/ |url-status=live }}</ref> It would be overtaken by ''[[The Cable Guy]]'' during its second weekend.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-star-press-first-place-finish-doesn/124170494/ |title=First-place finish doesn't tell story |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230506230752/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-star-press-first-place-finish-doesn/124170494/ |date=June 18, 1996 |access-date=May 6, 2023 |archive-date=May 6, 2023 |page=9 |publisher=[[The Star Press]] |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |url-status=live}} {{Open access}}</ref> Produced on a $75 million budget, ''The Rock'' grossed a total of $134 million in the U.S. and Canada and $201 million elsewhere, for a worldwide total of $335 million.<ref>{{cite news | title=The Rock Rolls to $23-Million Opening | last=Brennan | first=Judy | date=June 10, 1996 | work=[[Los Angeles Times]] | url= https://
===Critical response===
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