If your gonna watch Michael Bay films then there are rules.1/ Never watch Pearl Harbour (unless you skip directly to the main assualt or airfield attack)
2/ Watch The Island with sound only (to marvel at the athletic Scarlett without the baggage of that story)
3/ The more barking the movie the better the Bay (Transformers and Armageddon then)
So it was a very pleasent re-discovery to rewatch the 1996 action classic The Rock then.
Its more grounded from the Bay-fests of late and gains from that. Connery shows exactly why he is a movie star of the highest caliber and Cage demonstrates why he is always one of the most interesting A-Listers in Hollywood.
It doesn't hurt by having the greatest film score of the 1990's (TM). Most modern scores kind of sound like this... but unfortunately without the catchy compositions which makes this sooo great.
