Four Ways The Rock Should Have Ended.
4 General Hummel's Game Plan. Just listen to this proposal: Hummel, at some point, must have proposed to his rag tag gang of soldiers the following: Give up your cushy military career with benefits and prestige, help me steal a toxic gas from a weapon's facility, a gas so deadly one- at least- of you will die getting it, take over Alcatraz, demand money from the Government, hopefully get it, then, supposing all this works, dishonor yourself and your family, live in exile, and never see your wife or children ever again. For this low-risk enterprise you will get rained on with ONE MILLION DOLLARS.
Fucking sign me up.
3. The Navy Seal Attack. The Government won't pay Hummel, doesn't even consider it, and opts to send in Navy Seals, a geriatric, institutionalized Sean Connery whose only reason for being there is that he once escaped Alcatraz, but never broke into it, and lab rat Nicolas Cage to fix shit. Hummel didn't need a lab rat to weaponize the gas onto rockets. They fail.
Connery and Cage survive, so The Government allows them to give it one more try, although they really would have just called in the air-strike then and there, which they eventually do anyway. But speaking of those Navy Seals...
2. The Mercenaries Are Batshit Crazy. Hummel picked a bad lot of soldiers to pull off his insane plot. He himself says he doesn't know Blondie and Candyman and even says this when he meets them for THE FIRST TIME in Alcatraz. After the Navy Seals attack, it's pretty goddamn clear The Government ain't paying up, so the mercenaries decide... to gas San Francisco- San Francisco?- anyway. That makes no motherfucking sense. They don't care about anything but that ONE MILLION DOLLARS, so after the attack, any mercenary worth his salty balls would have overthrown Hummel- which they do- taken the VX gas and hopped in their helicopters and sold the it on the blackmarket for way, way more than ONE MILLION DOLLARS. You could argue that the only country they could sell the gas to might use it to bomb a major U.S. city and kill hundreds of thousands.... of civilians... that... the mercenaries wouldn't do....
1. Sean Connery is a Dumbass. After the Navy Seals are slaughtered, Nicolas Cage tells Connery about Hummel's plot to gas San Fransisco. Conney, idiot that he is, agrees to take down Hummel. All he had to do, and he could have done in five fucking minutes, was surrender to Hummel, go on a Skype call to the Government and say "Hey, guess what? You're going to pay these guys their money. And do it with a smile. Don't like that? Well then I'll tell them where to find that MICROFILM full of such dirty secrets you held me illegally in prison for." End of Movie.
Notable Lines:
"Sir we have a possible penetration point in the shower room."
It's a prison, get it?