The Rock

Released

Jun 6, 1996

IMDb rating

7.4 / 10 385,094 votes

Recall rating

7.0 / 10 1 rating

Overview

A group of rogue United States Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance, led by disenchanted Brigadier general (United States) Frank Hummel and his second-in-command Major Tom Baxter, storm a heavily guarded naval weapons depot and steal a stockpile of deadly VX (nerve agent)-armed M55 (rocket) rockets, losing one of their own men in the process. The next day, Hummel and his men — along with newly-recruited Marine Captains Frye and Darrow — seize control of Alcatraz Island, taking eighty-one tourists hostage. He threatens to launch the rockets against San Francisco unless the U.S. government pays him $100 million from a military slush fund, which he will distribute to his men and the families of Recon Marines who died on clandestine missions under his command but whose deaths were not compensated.

Studio

Buena Vista Pictures

Budget

$75,000,000

Box office

$335,100,000