Connery Did it Again!

The Rock continues to excite. One of the early film collaboration between Michael Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer,it stars the indefatigable Sean Connery,the enigmatic Ed Harris and the cool Nicholas Cage. Powerful performances by all three.

Because the deaths of American marines on covert operations overseas are never rewarded and recognised, a group of soldiers led by a distinguished renegade general, stole 15 chemical warheads and encamped on Alcatraz with 81 hostages. They demanded USD 1 million for each of the soldiers involved in the mutiny on Alcatraz or else they will kill the hostages. They will then launched all 15 chemical warheads all over America.

The only way to get into Alcatraz to stop the bombs from being used was to tap the service of a British spy, Mason-played to the hilt by a still able-bodied Connery. Since Mason was incarcerated on Alcatraz for 30 years as a spy and was the only man to have escaped from the fortified prison, they need to use him to get in as only he knew the tunnels and catacombs below the dungeon.


As usual, they won after all kinds of adversity.

One of the films that you come out of the cinema, feeling happy that good has trumped the bad and misguided.