Two Academy Award-winners, Sean Connery and Nicholas Cage, star in the action adventure blockbuster that critics hailed as a drop-dead thrill ride. Millions of lives hang in the balance after a military madman seizes control of the island prison Alcatraz and threatens to launch deadly poison gas missiles at San Francisco. With time ticking away, a chemical weapons expert and a cunning federal prisoner, who happens to be the only man ever to escape from Alcatraz, must now break in and disarm the missiles.