Plot Summary

General elite commando Spectel USA, behind which the experience of almost all wars on the planet, kidnaps with his best subordinates missiles with deadly gas and captures tourists hostage in the former prison of Alcatraz, located on an island in the Bay of San Francisco.

Did You Know?

Few people know that one of the authors of the script for this picture was Quentin Tarantino. However, Quentin has insisted that his name was not mentioned in the credits.

Sean Connery was asked to build a small house on Alcatraz. Given the advanced age and authority of the actor, as well as the reluctance of each day spend a considerable amount of time in order to reach the island, the producers went to meet him.

The film is dedicated to producer don Simpson, who died during filming.

Some of the fighters from team Navy seals were played by these forces.

A picture of John Schwartzman cousin of Nicholas cage, who plays a major role. Mother Shvartsman actress Talia Shayr – you have to cage aunt.

In this film, Michael biehn for the third time in his film career, after films "the Abyss" (1989) and "Navy seals" (1990), played an officer of Marines.

Photograph of General Hummel (ed Harris) captured in Vietnam, were taken from the film "Frontier" (1980), where Harris starred with Charles Bronson.

Stanley Anderson, who plays the U.S. President, played the us President in the movie "Armageddon" (1998), also created by Director Michael Beyem and producer Jerry Bruckheimer.

The hero of Sean Connery's John Mason asks to be put in a hotel, which coincidentally is located on Mason street.

When the hero Sean Connery doing a haircut at the hotel, the song "Leaving on a jet plane". The same song sung by the astronauts in the movie "Armageddon" (1998).

In one scene, Sean Connery says to Nicolas cage: "Maybe I lose my sex appeal?" This is an allusion to the phenomenon Connery, who, despite his age, is still considered a sex symbol.

On the stove, "Alcatraz," it is written that it is made in "the Foundry Bay", named in honor of the film's Director — Michael Bay.

Incidentally, the chemical agent VX, which the person is in terrible pain die in seven seconds, actually exists. It appeared in the fifties as a result of error: I wanted to make a pesticide, but it turned out such a thing here. VX in large quantities available in stockpiles in America and Russia.

VX nerve gas is 300 times more toxic than phosgene (СОСl2) used during the first world war. It was created in the Experimental laboratories of chemical defense, Porton Down, UK, in 1952, the patent Application was filed in 1962 and published in February 1974 they were listed that this substance is ethyl-S-2-диисопропиламиноэтилметилфосфонотилат. Lethal dose equal to 10 mg·min/m3 in air or 0.3 mg orally.

Finnish band Children of Bodom borrowed the melody from the soundtrack to this film. It can be heard in the song "Bodom After Midnight" on the album "Follow The Reaper" (2000).