Stars: Christopher Lambert, Kurtwood Smith, Loryn Locklin, Lincoln Kilpatrick

Director: Stuart Gordon

Summary: In a future time when the population are allowed only one child per couple, Captain Brennick and his wife Karen are sent to a maximum security prison for breaking the law. But can the Fortress hold an innocent man?...

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The story of Fortresstakes place in drastically overpopulated America of the year 2017, where each woman is allowed only one pregnancy. John Brennick (Christopher Lambert) and his wife Karen (Loryn Locklin) flee to Mexico when she becomes pregnant after the death of their first child. They are captured by border police and sent to the Fortress, a subterranean high-security prison owned by the Men-Tel corporation and operated by "Zed-10", an omnipotent computer system, and a sadistic, genetically "enhanced" warden (Kurtwood Smith) who has nefarious plans involving Brennick's wife and unborn child. Along with his cellmates (including Jeffrey Combs, a favourite of director Stuart Gordon), Brennick plots a breakout and Fortress shifts into auto-pilot action mode.

After making his reputation with such audacious horror films as From Beyondand Re-Animator, Stuart Gordon graduated to a bigger budget with Fortressbut his penchant for exploitation remains deliriously intact. While borrowing elements from a variety of better sci-fi movies, Fortressindulges every prison-flick cliché, but does it with such enjoyable B-movie vigour that it qualifies as a bona-fide guilty pleasure (indeed, it deserves to be ranked with James Cameron's original Terminatorin terms of its budgetary ingenuity). Featuring such giddy (and gory) devices as "intestinators" (deadly obedience devices implanted in prisoners' bodies) and a torturous "Mind Wipe Chamber", this is really just a drive-in action movie with lofty ambitions and the schlocky script hasn't a prayer of rising above the level of juvenile popcorn fodder. But there's no denying the energy and enthusiasm that Gordon brings to the film, which understandably became a global box-office hit and spawned a 1999 sequel starring Lambert and Pam Grier. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

Aspect Ratio:	1.85 Wide Screen, 16:9 Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Filmography, Theatrical Trailer
Subtitles:	Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Greek, Hindi, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish
Year:	1992
Release Date:	March 8, 2004
Runtime:	91 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	C 822 383 8
Keywords:	Action, General, Wide, Screen, Fortress, Adventure, Futuristic
Genre:	Futuristic