10 Movies That Became Unintentional Sequels

10. The Rock Is Sean Connery's Real Final 007 Outing

If there was ever someone who could escape the confines of Alcatraz Island, surely James Bond would be in with as good a shout as anyone.

Such thinking has led to some thinking that 1996's The Rock was Sean Connery's real final 007 outing, with him picking up the Bond baton from where he left off in 1971's Diamonds Are Forever. Here, Connery is yet again James Bond in every aspect bar his character's name.

As this Michael Bay feature plays out, we come to learn that not only is Connery's John Mason the only person to successfully escape from Alcatraz, but it's also explained how Mason was previously an SAS captain and an operative for the MI6 intelligence service. All sounds extremely 007, right?

Mason was locked up in Alcatraz after the US caught him stealing a microfilm containing the country's biggest secrets, and the stubborn fella opted to silently spend a couple of decades imprisoned rather than hand over this sensitive piece of intel.

Only adding further to the heavy Bond vibes, The Rock wraps up with John Mason faking his own death and outsmarting those who have had him in their crosshairs.