Year			1996
Genre			Action, thriller
Length			2:15
Director			Michael Bay
Writer			David Weisberg Douglas Cook
Company			Buena Vista Pictures
Starring			Sean Connery Nicolas Cage Ed Harris John Spencer David Morse William Forsythe Show more... Sean Connery Nicolas Cage Ed Harris John Spencer David Morse William Forsythe Michael Biehn Vanessa Marcil John C. McGinley Gregory Sporleder Tony Todd Bokeem Woodbine Jim Maniaci Greg Collins Brendan Kelly

A group of renegade marine commandos seizes a stockpile of chemical weapons and takes over Alcatraz, with 81 tourists as hostages. Their leader (Ed Harris), a former highly-decorated U. S. general, demands $100 million to be paid in ransom, as restitution to families of soldiers who died in covert operations and were thereby denied compensation. Otherwise, he is threatening to launch 15 rockets carrying deadly VX nerve gas into the San Francisco Bay area. An elite SEAL team, with support from an FBI chemical warfare expert Stanley Goodspeed (Nicolas Cage) and a former Alcatraz escapee John Mason (Sean Connery), is assembled to penetrate the terrorists' defenses on Alcatraz and neutralize the rocket threat before time runs out.