The only thing I don't like about it is the weak reason that General Hummel (Ed Harris) gives for holding 81 (quite a weak number) tourists hostage. And the fact that he doesn't actually do anything thats worth him being a bad guy.
I probably best like the part where Goodspeed (Cage) is defusing the first rocket in the morgue. The interchange betwen him and Connery is excellent.
It's just a stupid, unbelievable, unoriginal, loud, corny guys 'n guns flick.
And I ****ing love it. The opening scene is fantastic, and the final scene is even better. I probably would've liked it even if it had been full of D-list meat-headed nobodies, but the fact that it's Cage, Harris, Connery and John C. McGinley is like the icing on the cake.
Originally posted by lau_timmy
This is Michael Bay's best action movie ever made.
Here here!!
Great film, one of my best ever - i remember as a young starpping lad that I must of watched that film 3 times a week over at my grandas.
mmm.....81 hostages is a quite reasonable number, they wern't going to go anywhere else, that just happened to be the number of tourists on the rock at the time. Their main objective was Alcatraz - a place in range of san Fransisco and pretty much inpeniterable (they didnt count on John masson and Stanly goodspeed whooo!!).
One of connery's best films (apart from james bondera).
wow i love this movie, i love all of the one liners, and i read somewhere that QT had written some of the dialogue and that would be interesting to know what has of his thinking. i like the you must never hesitate scene and the winners go home and f*ck the prom queen!! and the you want me to stick this in my heart, are you F*CKING NUTS!!! hella sick
Stanley Goodspeed: Hi, I'm an agent with the federal... FBI... I'm Stanley Goodspeed.
John Mason: But of course you are.
Stanley Goodspeed: Of course.
John Mason: And you have an emergency.
Stanley Goodspeed: Right.
John Mason: And you need my help.
Stanley Goodspeed: Exactly right.
John Mason: Coffee?
Stanley Goodspeed: No, I'm fine, thank you.
John Mason: Offer me coffee.