The Rock

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