This is a tribute to The Rock.
Possibly one of the most manly films around.
Basically, its about this evil dude who steals these missiles and keeps them on Alkatraz, so the American army hires Nick Cage and Sean Connery to just bust in there, kick some asses, and get 'em back. That's pretty much it. No time travel, no computer simulations, no deep philosophical bullshit, no dream sequences, no bollocks. Just a bunch of guys in army suits shooting the shit out each other to resolve their differences.
The reason I love this film so much is that it doesn't even PRETEND to be smart or Politically Correct. It's a balls out action film of the old school. There isn't an important female character (take that, you feminist morons), and all the marines are big manly men. Females are relegated to the position of hostage, and attractive pregnant girlfriend plot point. Homosexuals are relegated to a brief reference to gang rape in the showers, and as a queer hairdresser, who generally gets abused by the oh so manly Sean Connery. Dude.
It sets its intentions out pretty early on, when a hippy car is run over by a humvee. And then about four FBI cars. And, I think, a jaguar.
This film goes in my category of 'balls-out action films', only shared by two others: Face/Off and Broken Arrow.
Here are the similarities between these three films:
1: There is some sort of missile/bomb thats going to be set off in all three of them.
2: Two are directed by John Woo.
3: All three feature Nick Cage, John Travolta, or both.
4: In all three the main characters are men. Manly men.
5: Two of them feature rogue military sqadrons of some sort.
6: The missile/bomb gets set off in TWO of them.
7: They are all so ACHINGLY manly, it belies belief.
8: None of them feature Orlando Bloom, Julia Roberts, Hugh Grant, Colin Farrel, or many of the bollocks poncy actors of the day.
Yeah. So in conclusion: These films all rule.
Celebrity zombie killin' : Nick Cage
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