Trailer for The Rock
FBI biochemist Stanley Goodspeed (Nicolas Cage - Leaving Las Vegas) finds himself sent into action when marine General Francis Xavier Hummel (Ed Harris - Glengarry Glen Ross) and his loyal band of men take control of Alcatraz Island holding the tourists hostage. Protesting about the government's treatment of those who went on covert military missions he has stolen VX gas warheads and is threatening to cause destruction if his demands aren't answered. Whilst Stanley knows how to disarm the bombs he's more of a science geek than an action man and when he is teamed up with the abrupt John Patrick Mason (Sean Connery - The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen), the only man who has ever escaped from Alcatraz, things get tetchy. ... Read Review