Fortress

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Draco L Jan 14, 2019 Who knew that watching Raw Deal and then Fortress would make a fantastic over the top action doubleheader. Well, movie nerds and action aficionados, but not me. In my attempt to go through movies I should have seen by now, I bring you Fortress. A Stuart Gordon Sci-Fi action movie about a private underground supermax prison in the future year of 2017. It is scary that I felt like there are things in this that I felt could have very much come about in that year. Private prisons, population control, cops killing civilians, half-human half-machine prison wardens made from the non-aborted babies of the prisoners...well one of those things may be a stretch. Plot-wise, after being caught at the Canadian border trying to escape America with his wife who is pregnant with their second child. Chris Lambert gets arrested and thrown in an underground supermax prison in the middle of the desert. Here he is fitted with a device called the "Intestinator" which, when he is misbehaving or moving outside of where he should be will make his intestines explode. After finding out that his wife is alive and still pregnant, Lambert begins a weirdly convoluted way escaping which includes, using a hidden intestinator out of someone else stomach, his pregnant wife shacking up with the warden, and having his mind melted in a machine they use at theme parks. In the end, while the exploding people filled with blue goo are fun to watch, the move isn't really a thinker. Although, there are a lot of creepy ideas in this. Since abortion is illegal the prisons keep the babies birthed from the women prisoners and meld them with machines as well as things they find on the floor to make the perfect hybrid human. The warden is a successful attempt at it, while the guards on are not. It a nice add-on that keeps the goofiness at bay just a bit. I really enjoyed this film. I know there are a ton of flaws to it, and it kinds of looks like a sad grey tower of bland. Fortress just has too much weird and goofy to not be fun. Add in some hardcore violence, and exploding people and it's hard not to enjoy yourself. See more

Poe S Feb 11, 2018 I liked this for the genre, though Lambert is any Oscar contender.

Rey L Feb 1, 2018 There's a lot here that's smart, or at least well versed in Foucault-biopolitics, panopitcon, punishment and discipline-but Lambert is, well, Lambert, and the whole thing suffers for it. Hokey, low-budget, and a bit too flimsy to ever really land. See more

Luke S Jan 5, 2018 This was a whole lot of fun back in the early 90s brimming with Cheese this sci-fi action mash up is a treat for fans. Kurtwood Smith plays the warden and hams it up. It's basically the opening scene of the Running Man (when they break out of prison)extended for 90 mins with a more futuristic look. See more

Ron M Feb 4, 2017 Good action sci-fi thriller--still holds up.

Anakin S Feb 3, 2015 An exciting action sci-fi with a lackluster conclusion. A more well known actor besides Christopher Lambert would have been preferred. See more

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