The Rock! millions of lives hang in the balance after a military madman (Ed Harris - Apolla 13) seizes control of the island prison Alcatraz and threatens to launch deadly poison gas missles at San f Francisco. With time ticking away, a chemical weapon expert (Cage) and a cunning federal prisonner (Connery), who happens to be the only man to break out of Alcatraz, must now break in and disarm the missiles.