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Fortress (1992)

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(56%)

Starring:	Christopher Lambert \| Kurtwood Smith \| Loryn Locklin \| Lincoln Kilpatrick
Director:	Stuart Gordon
Studio:	UCA
Run time:	91 mins
Genres:	Action/Adventure
Languages:	English
Dubbed:	French, Spanish
Subtitles:	Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Greek, Hindi, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish
Released:	March 08, 2004

'Fortress' is set in a future time when the population is allowed only one child per couple.

Rating of 3 stars out of 5

An entertaining science-fiction thriller, with Christopher Lambert sent to a maximum security prison for conceiving a second child — a crime in director Stuart Gordon's imaginatively rendered totalitarian future. There he suffers hi-tech torture and intense corruption while planning a daring break out. Violent, inventive (watch out for the Intestinator and the Mind Wipe Chamber!) and lots of intriguing fun, Re-Animator man Gordon makes this fantasy Great Escape meets Prisoner Cell Block H a suspenseful roller-coaster ride, despite its pulp limitations. You can't fail to be swept away by its excess verve as the action gets continuously cranked up to ever more fast and furious levels.

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Rated 4.0 stars
TOP MOVIE !!!

A Customer from GLASGOW, 16th July, 2005

Director Stuart Gordon's contribution to the I've-seen-the-future-and-it-sucks genre, FORTRESS is a creative and rousing sci-fi adventure. It's 2018, and America is facing a terrible overpopulation crisis. To solve the problem, a strict limit has been set on the number of children a family can have: one. When John Brennick (Christopher Lambert) and his wife, Karen (Loryn Locklin), lose their infant son, they try to have another illegally. However, they're caught and sent off to the Fortress, a supermaximum security prison from which escape is impossible. Despite the robot guards, the laser beams, the mindscanners, and the death devices planted in all inmates' stomachs, Brennick plans an escape with his wife anyway. Lambert is excellent as Brennick, the only reasonable man in an unreasonable world. Locklin is good as Karen, his wife and equal in strength of mind and will. Kurtwood Smith is gleefully evil as the sadistic prison director who is as emotionless as the machines that control him. Gordon imparts his graphic and detailed visual style to the film, as well as his usual strengths of strong character development and solid storytelling. FORTRESS is a great sci-fi escape movie that recalls THE RUNNING MAN and other prison-break films.

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