The Rock
I appear to have hit a groove of watching old faves, and here’s another I haven’t written about here yet (though I’m sure I must have many times in previous incarnations of my site/blog). It’s 10 years this year since this was first released, since that day I snuck into a screening on a Mission:Impossible ticket (saw Down Periscope and Twister on the same ticket if I recall correctly, lol) – almost to the day in fact, the day I personally pin down as the day I fell in love with cinema, or, at least, the summer I fell in love with cinema. So I guess in a sense it’s close to my heart. Whether that affects my opinion, well, that’s up to you 
This is the ultimate blockbuster movie, the ultimate Don Simpson movie, Michael Bay’s best. Sean Connery is classier than class, Nicolas Cage is cooler than cool, there’s a cameo by Claire Forlani amongst others, a plethora of quotable lines, and the epitome of a Hans Zimmer score. My interest never wanes watching this one. If I was the kind of person who had a super-exclusive list of movies I considered classics, that I added to only once in a while, now would be the time I’d add this one. ‘Cos it’s definitely some kind of classic, and I can’t think of a blockbuster as purely blockbusting since its release … maybe Face/Off, I guess.