The Rock: Critic Reviews

Pure why-not bravado, pumped-up and staggeringly dishonest but exciting just the same.

[A] 2 1/4-hour exercise in overkill.

A violence-intoxicated, far-fetched, morally corrupt drama.

The movie deteriorates into a long commercial for the home-game version of itself.

A first-rate, slam-bang action thriller with a lot of style and no little humor.

Excitement may be The Rock's selling point, but it has plenty more to offer than you bargained for.

From a helicopter's point-of-view, The Rock is just typical big American dumb fun. It's only when you look underneath at the film's underlying assumptions that you want to recoil.

Producers Jerry Bruckheimer and the late Don Simpson have a highly-successful resume that includes Top Gun and Crimson Tide. The Rock will add more luster to that reputation.

Slick, brutal and almost human, this is the team-spirit action movie Mission: Impossible should have been.

A popcorn-movie deluxe.

Slick and forceful, largely unconcerned with character, eager for any opportunity to pump up the volume both literally and metaphorically, The Rock is the kind of efficient entertainment that is hard to take pleasure in.

An explosive, violent, mile-a-minute actioner.

Providing an endless stream of one-liners, which put in check any of the films pretensions towards seriousness, Connery brings life to an otherwise formulaic movie.

It's an action junkie's angry fix -- 130 minutes of sound and fury, signifying nothing but big bucks and boundless contempt for viewer intelligence.

Un festival de demolition aussi grandiose que profondement immature

Entertaining action, nothing more nor less.

Fake countdown and knowing reactionary tone, but the best SF car chase to date.

The movie, directed by sophomore Michael Bay (Bad Boys) is almost unwatchable.

Extremely far-fetched, but undeniably exciting.

A rousing action picture with generous dashes of humor, The Rock remains the much-maligned director's best film

It may not be an original, but it's certainly a good knock-off.