The Rock #33

Believe it or not, once upon a time Nicolas Cage was considered “too quirky” to star in an action blockbuster but luckily for us, Nic took this to be a challenge rather than a roadblock and in 1996 he embarked on a nearly 20-year action voyage that only Ghost Rider Spirit of Vengeance had the power to shipwreck. So how in the name of Zues’s butthole did a quirky indie film character actor, fresh off an Oscar winning performance as an alcoholic screenwriter become the action star of the 90’s? We’ll find out as we lock ourselves in solitary confinement with the only Michael Bay movie I’ll even contemplate considering a classic: The Rock

When a disgruntled General threatens to unleash deadly chemical weapons on the city of San Francisco, the FBI turns to an unlikely hero in the form of a chemical warfare expert named Stanley Goodspeed and a former British spy/top secret prisoner to break into Alcatraz to dismantle the weapons before they can be launched.

The Rock stars four time Oscar nominee Ed Harris, the only man who could keep Eddie King in check during Deadfall Michael Biehn, H.I. McDonaugh’s old cellmate William Forsythe, the one and only Claire Forlani, Sean “James Freakin’ Bond” Connery and of course, why don’t we just cut the chit-chat A-Holes, Academy Award winning actor Nicolas Kim Coppola better known as Nicolas Cage.