Breaking into Alcatraz?, yeah, sure, no problem.

Rating: 9/10 (2 July 1999)

This movie really rocked me. It has thrilling fast-paced action and music really is great (I got the sound track shortly after) though people in my country are abusing it in all sorts of commercials and programs.
This movie details a bunch of navy seals lead by General Hummel (Ed Harris) that take control over Alcatraz, otherwise known as The Rock, so they can force the US government to pay benefits to all the families of the soldiers who died in the wars. Now it's up to another team of navy seals lead by ex-con and the only one to escape Alcatraz, Jhon Mason (Sean Connry) and the "Chemical super-freak" Dr. Stanley Goodspeed (Nicolas Cage) to stop them. So the team gets in (quite marvelously) and all hell breaks loose when everyone in the team is killed except Mason and Goodspeed, so now they have to resolve the situation on their own.
I have a classification for all sorts of media that I call "Cosmic Meaning", where something impacts me on many levels. This one didn't got in very high but it surely got in. It's a great action movie and if I am not mistaken it's Cage's first action flick, and he does a great job, I tell you.
Sean Connry does great as a prisoner who needs to get them into The Rock and so does Nicolas Cage considering this is his first action role. I recommend this movie to all action freaks, they'll love it, but not only them, I'm sure this will turn any action-hater to The Dark SideT.