Stars: Christopher Lambert, Beth Toussaint, Willie Garson

Director: Geoff Murphy

Summary: John Brennick manages to escape from 'The Fortress', a maximum security prison only to be caught again and incarcerated in a futuristic state-of-the-art maximum security prison which is orbiting 26,000 miles from Earth. He must attempt to escape again to be reunited with his wife and son...

After escaping from the futuristic maximum security prison portrayed in 1993's FORTRESS, John Brennick (Lambert) and his family are fugitives once again. Before you know it, Brennick is once again trapped in a world of concrete, steel, and laser-blazing security probes. No ordinary prison, this one was created by the evil Men-Tel Corporation and orbits 26,000 miles from Earth. Among the inmates are the fiercest criminals on the planet, who bide their time performing menial labor amidst meteor showers and other harsh elements. Facing an elaborate surveillance system which includes a camera placed inside his own body, Brennick must overcome the odds and be reunited with his wife and son.

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Christopher Lambert stars in Fortress 2, a straight-to-video sequel to the 1992 original. You just knowit's gonna be good. Here he reprises his role as John Brennick, former leader of the Resistance and thorn in the side of the Men-Tel Corporation. In the first movie, Brennick escaped from and destroyed Men-Tel's high-tech "inescapable" prison. In the 10 years since then, he's gotten himself a house in the woods and some horses, and has illegally procreated with his wife. When Resistance members find him and try to recruit him back into the cause, the bad guys are not far behind, and after some two-dollar action scenes he finds himself captured and thrown into MEN-TEL's brand-new prison, which happens to be orbiting the Earth. Surely, nobody could ever escape from this! Except maybe, just maybe John Brennick! The plot is even more predictable than the placement of the co-ed shower scenes, to the point that you can practically quote the dialogue before it's spoken, with the only surprises being whichcliché they're going to use, and when. (By the way, these violent prisoners are actually being used to build and modify the satellite they're imprisoned in.) Pam Grier has an embarrassing cameo as the owner of MEN-TEL, and the dignity she tries to bring to the role is entirely out of place. The only fun to be had is if you watch it as if you're watching a bunch of adults play "action film", making for a strange entertainment, indeed. --Andy Spletzer, Amazon.com

Aspect Ratio:	1.85 Wide Screen, 16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Interactive Menus, Behind The Scenes Featurette, Filmographies, Theatrical Trailer
Subtitles:	Arabic, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish, Turkish
Year:	1999
Release Date:	May 10, 2004
Runtime:	89 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	C 822 470 9
Keywords:	Action, General, Wide, Screen, Fortress, Adventure, Futuristic
Genre:	Action/Adventure