Renegade Marines?

Rating: 4/10 (29 January 2007)

Renegade Marines. The concept is almost an oxymoron. Yet the premise of this action film is that a rogue marine general Ed Harris, steals some rockets with nerve gas and then takes over Alcatraz island which is now a tourist attraction and threatens to launch strikes into the San Francisco bay area unless his financial demands are met.
After a Navy Seal team is massacred in trying to take the island back it's up to an aged ex-convict named Sean Connery and a chemical weapons specialist Nicholas Cage to save San Francisco from the USMC albeit a very renegade bunch of them.
The Rock is strictly for action junkies who don't care about plot or improbable situations. In fact the film should have been familiar to the first James Bond of the silver screen. Sean Connery had some more realistic situations in those films than he does here.
Of course fans of Sean Connery will pay to see him in anything and I'm certainly one of them. Nicholas Cage tries his very best to give the dialog a little meaning.
If I had a favorite in this film however it's the Navy Seal commander Michael Biehn. It's a good, sincere performance in a Thanksgiving Day special of a film.
For fans of the players above only.