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==Plot== <!-- Per WP:FILMPLOT, plot summaries for feature films should be between 400 to 700 words. --> Disillusioned [[USMC]] Brigadier General Francis "Frank" Hummel and his rogue group of [[Force Recon]] Marines, including his loyal subordinate Major Tom Baxter, steal 15 rockets filled with lethal [[VX gas]] from a [[U.S. Navy]] facility. The next day, they seize control of [[Alcatraz Island]], taking the tourists and guards hostage. Hummel contacts the [[FBI]] and threatens to launch the rockets at the [[San Francisco Bay Area]] unless the government pays him $100 million, of which some will be donated to each family of the men who died during his command but were never compensated. The [[Department of Defense]] and the FBI plot to retake Alcatraz by infiltrating the old tunnel system beneath the island, with [[Navy SEALs]] led by Commander Anderson. They recruit FBI [[chemical weapons]] specialist Stanley Goodspeed to join them and disarm the rockets safely. With no knowledge of the latest architecture of the tunnels, [[FBI Director]] Womack and others reluctantly call on the aid of the imprisoned John Mason, a former British [[MI6]] and [[Special Air Service|SAS]] operative and the only man to escape Alcatraz after he stole a microfilm created by [[J. Edgar Hoover]] containing classified U.S. information. Mason refused to reveal the microfilm's location after being captured, knowing he would be killed and was imprisoned without trial. Mason agrees after signing a pardon that clears his record, though Womack destroys it shortly after. Mason escapes and leads the FBI on a car chase, causing a rampage through the city before being caught by Goodspeed when he meets with his estranged daughter, Jade. At the command center, Mason negotiates to join the team heading to Alcatraz. The team infiltrates the prison, but Hummel's men are alerted to their presence and ambush them in the shower room. Hummel tries to convince Anderson to surrender, but the zealous Captain Frye and Captain Darrow deliberately cause a shootout that kills Anderson and his team. Mason and Goodspeed manage to evade them. Believing the mission to be a failure, Mason prepares to leave until Goodspeed reveals the truth about the VX, explaining that Mason's daughter and his pregnant fiancée, Carla, would be killed as well. Mason works together with Goodspeed to disable twelve rockets and kill several Marines. After Hummel threatens to execute a hostage, Mason surrenders to stall him while Goodspeed disables another rocket before also being captured. They escape from their cells, but Mason, having assessed Hummel as a soldier who doesn't kill innocents, leaves, with Goodspeed continuing on his own. Caught and held at gunpoint, Goodspeed is forced to surrender, but Mason saves him, convinced that Goodspeed's unborn child needs its father. As the ransom deadline passes, Frye and Darrow pressure Hummel into firing a rocket, but he redirects it to detonate in the sea. Hummel explains the rockets were a bluff and that he never intended to kill anyone. Realizing they will not be paid, Frye and Darrow convince the remaining soldiers to mutiny against Hummel and Baxter. Baxter is killed and Hummel is mortally wounded but tells Goodspeed the location of the last rocket. An airstrike is initiated to destroy Alcatraz with experimental thermite plasma bombs, which will neutralize the gas but kill everyone on the island. Goodspeed and Mason kill the remaining Marines before signaling to abort the attack. However, one of the bombs was already dropped at the back of the island. The blast throws Goodspeed into the bay, but Mason saves him from drowning. Goodspeed confirms the mission's success to Womack but claims Mason was killed in the explosion before telling Mason that Womack shredded his pardon. The pair part ways amicably, with Mason recommending Goodspeed to a church in Kansas where he kept the microfilm. Sometime later, Goodspeed and his newly wedded wife, Carla, recover the microfilm from the church.
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