BBB
(out of 5)
If you like your action movies loud as can be, you’ll love this adrenaline-pumped ride by Michael Bay (Armageddon, Pearl Harbour). When an unbalanced Vietnam vet (Ed Harris) decides to take refuge on Alcatraz with his band of renegade soldiers and hold San Francisco hostage with a dangerous chemical bomb in his possession, FBI operative Nicolas Cage (one of his most fun and lively roles) enlists the help of ex-convict Sean Connery, a former prisoner of Alcatraz who actually managed to escape. Lots of great set pieces, action scenes involving car chases and last-minute-nick-of-time-stop-the-bomb moments, but Bay always overdoes it with the queasily colourful photography and slow-motion sequences, making his films more tiresome than enjoyable.
Hollywood Pictures, Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films
USA, 1996
Directed by Michael Bay
Story by David Weisberg, Douglas Cook, Screenplay by David Weisberg, Douglas Cook, Mark Rosner
Cinematography by John Schwartzman
Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, Don Simpson
Music by Nick Glennie-Smith, Hans Zimmer
Production Design by Michael White
Costume Design by Bobbie Read
Film Editing by Richard Francis-Bruce
