A group of renegade marines under the command of Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel (Ed Harris) took over Alcatraz with 81 hostages and threatened to strike San Francisco Bay with biological weapons, demanding a ransom to be paid out to soldiers under his charge who sacrificed their lives in some of the covert operations but were never recognised for their efforts with a proper military burial and whose family benefits were never paid out.
In an attempt to neutralise this threat, FBI chemical weapons specialist Dr. Stanley Goodspeed (Nicholas Cage) was called in to help. In order to infiltrate Alcatraz, the FBI was also forced to rope in a former British intelligence, John Patrick Mason (Sean Connery), who was previously incarcerated on Alcatraz and the only person to have ever escaped from the prison successfully. He had been held in prison without trial for almost 30 years due to the intel he has gathered about some of the major historical events that have occured in the US.
With a group of Navy Seals, these two men were sent to Alcatraz and with much at stake and the possibility of Mason abandoning the mission, this was a simple, no-frills action-packed film that was thoroughly enjoyable. Do watch it! =)
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