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In Michael Bay's THE ROCK gung-ho general Francis Hummel Ed Harris armed with deadly chemical rockets and aided by violent cohorts takes over the island of Alcatraz holding 81 tourists hostage. Hummel promises to deploy the missiles over San Francisco if Washington doesn't make amends to ignored combat victims to the tune of 100 million. A cadre of Navy SEALs are dispatched to quell the situation assisted by the mysterious macho John Mason Sean Connery the only man to ever escape from Alcatraz who must now help the SEALs break back in. Joining them is mild-mannered chemical weapons expert Stanley Goodspeed Nicolas Cage who is unaccustomed to such things as guns and military maneuvers. Their high-octane mission is filled with surprises particularly after Hummel and company quickly annihilate the SEALs--leaving Mason and Goodspeed to save the day all by themselves.

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Simon Templar Val Kilmer AKA The Saint realizes his skill for trickery during his childhood in a Far East orphanage. He uses his natural born gifts including a penchant for bizarre and effective disguises to obtain things for people which they can not obtain themselves. When he is hired by a Russian crime boss Rade Serbedzija BEFORE THE RAIN to use his chameleon-like abilities to lift the secrets of cold fusion from Oxford-based scientist Emma Russell Elizabeth Shue he has little idea he might fall in love with his victim--or be double-crossed by his snakelike employer. Based on the character created by author Leslie Chateris which spawned dozens of novels and a popular 1960s British television series starring Roger Moore.

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John Sturges's adaptation of Jack Higgins's best-selling suspense novel stars Michael Caine as Nazi Col. Kurt Steiner. When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk it hatches an audacious scheme to kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany for enforced negotiations with Der Fhrer. Heinrich Himmler Donald Pleasence assigns Col. Max Radl Robert Duvall to mastermind the operaton. He enlists the aid of Steiner who has been imprisoned for subordination and is awaiting sentence by offering him a chance to save his life. Liam Devlin Donald Sutherland an IRA lifer who hates the British also signs on for the mission. Steiner and his commando team parachute into the small village of Sudley disguised as Polish soldiers and appear to the populace to be paratroopers running through exercises. As they await the arrival of Churchill one of the commandos rescues a boy from drowning in a nearby river inadvertently revealing his Nazi colors

As THE BOURNE IDENTITY begins a man who may or may not be Jason Bourne Matt Damon is found floating in the Mediterranean Sea and is hauled onto a fishing boat. When the ship's doctor examines the unconscious castaway he discovers two bullet wounds and an implanted device that displays a Swiss bank account number. With nothing but this code the amnesiac Bourne travels to Zurich and gains access to a safe-deposit box containing a gun thousands of dollars in various currencies and valid passports from numerous countries--each listing a different identity. Within minutes Bourne is on the run from a seemingly ever-present agency relying on language and fighting skills he didn't even know he possessed. Offering 20000 for a ride to Paris Bourne gains the reluctant help of the nomadic Marie Franka Potente. Meanwhile the shadowy organization headed by a tough-talking bureaucrat Chris Cooper sends numerous assassins including the Professor played by Clive Owen after Bourne and Marie. As their situation grows more peril

Former spies Jeff and Jane Blue Dennis Quaid and Kathleen Turner are on joint maternity leave in New Orleans with their infant daughter when they get called to track down international supercriminal Novacek Fiona Shaw. Novacek once head of the secret police in communist Czechoslovakia has gotten hold of explosives so lethal the United States Army won't touch them. The only ones who can stop her are the mom-pop-baby trio....