

When vengeful General Francis X. Hummel seizes control of Alcatraz Island and threatens to launch missiles loaded with deadly chemical weapons into San Francisco, only a young FBI chemical weapons expert and notorious Federal prisoner have the skills to penetrate the impregnable island fortress and take him down.
Acting
Cage's 'green smoke' freakout belongs in the Smithsonian.
Direction
Peak Bay before he lost all restraint. Every shot sweats.
Score
Hans Zimmer's brass section could wake the dead.

Director
Michael Bay
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Connery did most of his own stunts at 65 because he's built different. The shower fight scene took four days to shoot.
This is the ONLY film with writing credits for both Quentin Tarantino AND Aaron Sorkin, though neither wanted their names on it. The final script was allegedly 30 different drafts Frankensteined together.