Director: John Carpenter

Starring: Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, Isaac Hayes, Some other Fuckers

When you try to rob the federal reserve bank, you get sent to manhattan which since 1988 has been a full on prison island, to rescue the president and some bullshit tape that supposedly has the formula for nuclear fission.  If this thing is so important, why didn't they just email it or something? It's 1997 for chrissakes.