Plot:
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. - Tad Dibbern

Comment:
A good action movie whose strong points are in the actors and in the scenes rather than in the plot. In fact, Sean Connery is as good as ever in his acting and the various scenes really catch the attention of the audience unlike many other 'plain' movies.

The plot itself is quite common, the bad guys have a powerful weapon and will use it against the innocent population if the government doesn't give them what they want. Quite differently from the usual, they have a relatively 'admirable' reason for doing this, so they don't look like the typical terrorists, far too common in this sort of movies.

The happy end is rather predictable which is really a pity, but as I already said, the plot is not the strong part of this movie...