A group of renegade marine commandos seizes a stockpile of chemical weapons and takes over Alcatraz, with 81 tourists as hostages. Their leader demands $100 million to be paid, as restitution to families of Marines who died in covert ops.
A group of renegade marine commandos seizes a stockpile of chemical weapons and takes over Alcatraz, with 81 tourists as hostages. Their leader demands $100 million to be paid, as restitution to families of Marines who died in covert ops. Otherwise, he will launch 15 rockets carrying deadly VX gas into the San Francisco Bay area.
Sean Connery
as John Patrick Mason
Nicolas Cage
as Dr. Stanley Goodspeed
Ed Harris
as Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, USMC
John Spencer
as FBI Director James Womack
David Morse
as Major Tom Baxter
William Forsythe
as Special Agent Ernest Paxton
Michael Biehn
as Commander Charles Anderson
Vanessa Marcil
as Carla Pestalozzi
John C. McGinley
as Marine Captain Hendrix
Bokeem Woodbine
as Sergeant Crisp
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Review of The Rock 1996
Making a good action scene isn't really all that hard. You just need some action to it, and voila. You have a good action scene. Then you just slap some cliched score ontop and edit it nicely. But let's take a look at what action scenes are about; They're about people being involved in action. Be it
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