The Rock
The Rock is a 1996 American action thriller film directed by Michael Bay, produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, and written by David Weisberg, Douglas S. Cook and Mark Rosner. The film stars Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage and Ed Harris, with William Forsythe and Michael Biehn co-starring. In the film, the Pentagon assigns a team comprising an FBI chemist and a former SAS captain with a team of SEALs to break into Alcatraz, where a rogue general and a rogue group of Marines have seized all the tourists on the island and have threatened to launch rockets filled with nerve gas upon San Francisco unless the U.S. government pays $100 million to the next-of-kin of 83 men who were killed on missions that the general led and that the Pentagon denied.
Plot
Disillusioned Brigadier General Francis Hummel and his second-in-command Major Tom Baxter lead a rogue group of U.S. Force Recon Marines against a heavily guarded naval weapons depot to steal a stockpile of VX gas-loaded M55 rockets. The next day, Hummel and his men seize control of Alcatraz Island, taking the tourists and guards hostages. Hummel contacts the FBI and the Pentagon, threatening to launch the rockets against San Francisco unless the U.S. government pays him $100 million from a military slush fund, which he will distribute to his men and the families of Recon Marines who died on covert missions under his command, but whose deaths were not compensated.
Cast
- Bokeem Woodbine
- Brendan Kelly
- Claire Forlani
- Danny Nucci
- David Marshall Grant
- David Morse
- Dwight Hicks
- Ed Harris
- Greg Collins
- Gregory Sporleder
- Jim Caviezel
- John C. McGinley
- John Enos III
- John Spencer
- Luenell
- Marshall R. Teague
- Michael Biehn
- Nicolas Cage
- Philip Baker Hall
- Raymond Cruz
- Sam Whipple
- Sean Connery
- Stanley Anderson
- Steve Harris
- Stuart Wilson
- Todd Louiso
- Tom Towles
- Tony Todd
- Vanessa Marcil
- William Forsythe
- Willie Garson
- Xander Berkeley