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.
Wow, Michael Bay actually made 2 good movies. This was probably his best with the original Bad Boys being his second best. I've yet to see Armageddon but his career has gone downhill since Pearl Harbor. That in itself was a total f*cking wreck as was The Island. I did enjoy Bad Boys II but felt it was a very unnecessary remake. Really, did the world need another Bad Boys or was it just Martin Lawrence? A very noticable cast Bay was able to put together in this film and was VERY surprised to see Vanessa Marcil (I just wasn't aware she was in the movie). Cage and Connery were good but Ed Harris stole the show for me as General Hummel.
