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In the Rock when Sean Connery is leading everybody into the island, he rolls through the spurts of fire because he "memorized the timing." Then once he gets in, he opens a door to let the rest of the team in.

Why would he have learned the fire timing when he could have just opened the door and walked out in the first place?

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At the time it was a fully functioning prison, which would have had guards, electronic locks, generally a much more secure area. No way to just stroll out.

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If there are guards on the side of the door from which the team entered, he wouldn't have gotten away either way. I also think it's stretching it that there would be guards on the other side of the door, but not anywhere else along his route.

Also, aside from guards you seem to be indicating that back then the place had electronic locks and other high-tech security devices, which have since been disabled. But why didn't they disable the unnecessary fire spurts? It seems more likely that the Rock simply got neglected and that its security measures were just things like mazes and automated fire mechanisms that they never shut down. It would be weird if they shut down half their devices (electronic locks, for example) but not the fire ones.