When vengeful General Francis X. Hummel seizes control of Alcatraz Island and threatens to launch missiles loaded with deadly chemical weapons into San Francisco, only a young FBI chemical weapons expert and notorious Federal prisoner have the skills to penetrate the impregnable island fortress and take him down.
John Patrick Mason
Dr. Stanley Goodspeed
Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, USMC
FBI Director James Womack
Major Tom Baxter
Special Agent Ernest Paxton
Commander Charles Anderson
Carla Pestalozzi
Marine Captain Hendrix
Right, first things first - turn your brain down to simmer for a couple of hours before you watch this and just remember it is meant to be a far-fetched action film. Once in that gear, it's not actually that bad once it eventually gets going. Rogue general "Hummel" (Ed Harris) steals some highly potent chemical weapons, takes some hostages on Alcatraz and points his weapons at San Francisco. It falls to FBI biochemist "Goodspeed" (Nicolas Cage) and the even more rogue prisoner "Mason" (Sean Connery) to take some marines and thwart this lethal attack. None of the acting here is any good - they ...
Status Released
Original LanguageEnglish
Budget$75,000,000.00
Revenue $335,062,621.00