absolutely splendid action flick!!!!

Rating: 10/10 (31 October 1998)

This is one of my all time whit none stop action and great actors:Sean Connery (my favorite Bond), Nicolas Cage (Face/Off & Con Air), Ed Harris (The Truman Show,Apollo 13) and also Michael Biehn (Aliens, The Terminator, The Abyss). The plot goes something like this a group of renegade marine commandos seizes a stockpile of chemical weapons and takes over Alcatraz, with 81 tourists as hostages. Their leader, 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) and a former Alcatraz escapee (John Mason), is assembled to penetrate the terrorists' defenses on Alcatraz and neutralize the rocket threat before time runs out.Michael Bay, the director has done three film and they are all produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and they all ROCK