15th May 2016, 08:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Inspector Abberline  Fortress (1992)
Fortress (1992)
In the future you are only a loud one child,so John Henry Brennick (Christopher Lambert) and his wife Karen B. Brennick (Loryn Locklin) try to escape but are caught when the guards notice that Brennick's wife is wearing a magnetic vest which hides the fact that she is pregnant from the guards scanners.But like everything else set in the future nothing works as it should and they are caught,Brennick getting arrested and sentenced to 31 years in prison . As in the film The Running Man (1987 ) trying to escape futuristic prisons is always a bad idea,in Fortress due to Intestinators being implanted into the stomach of the prisoners ,means if you cross a certain line then your stomach explodes,ouch pass the indigestion tablets.Stuart Gordon directs the kind of science fiction action film,which resembles those low budget mad max rip off's that came out of Italy in the 1980's,and it has a cast of some of the best B-movie actors that were doing the rounds at the time ,Kurtwood (Robocop) Smith as prison director Poe ,Jeffrey Combs as D-Day,Tom Towles as Stiggs and Vernon ( Commando,Mad Max 2) Wells as Maddox and of course not forgetting Christopher Lambert an actor destined for greatness but never really got there. Fortress seemed to be part of a trend for science fiction prison films at the time with Alien 3,No Escape and Demolition Man all giving there own versions of the short,sharp shock treatment so beloved by the Conservative Party back in the 1980's.Fortress is a decent enough action pot boiler,it has all the relevant cliches of any prison movie, the threat of sodomy, getting into a fight with the prison's bad ass and inevitably getting into trouble with the prison governor. Fortress does try to tackle social problems like over crowding,famine and what to do with an over populated prison system,but Stuart Gordon's direction is so heavy handed and lacklustre,and seems out of step with his other movies ( and I haven't seen Robot Jox (1989) in years) It's a fun enjoyable exploitation movie,but not a great Suart Gordon movie. | I haven't seen Fortress in years. I'd pick a blu up in a heartbeat.
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