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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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For that matter, why couldn't a unit of bad ass commandos just breech the door with some C4?

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They were trying to get in quietly so blowing up the door to get in would have made that effort futile.

Everyone else,

I worked in a holding center facility which in no way is similar to a maximum security prison like Alcatraz, but I can guarantee one thing. There is no way he would have been able to just walk out of a door and out of the building EVER. There were guards/camera/ etc etc around every single exit/entrance.

Just on a hunch if you watch the movie there was probably no door knob or latch on the outside of that door so they couldnt simply walk up and open the door.