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Belli The Sweet Mouse. I hope you like it, friend!
Some time in the future, it has become illegal to give birth to more than one child per couple. John Braddick and his wife pregnant Karen are caught trying to cross the border into Canada and are sentenced to prison, no matter that their first child was stillborn. They are both sent to 'The Fortress', a subterranean prison thirty stories deep underneath the desert. Prisoners are implanted with 'Intestinators', devices that will explode if the prisoner misbehaves. Prisoners are put to work excavating and digging the ever-growing prison deeper and the whole complex is controlled by the super-computer Zed-10. Even with everything stacked against him, Braddick is determined to find his wife and bust out of the prison.
Director Stuart Gordon is best known for his gory horror movies (Re-Animator, From Beyond, etc), so you can understand how disappointed I was when I first watched this movie. Characters are blown up into gooey chunks, but any violence mostly happens to the cyborg guards with cheap-looking blue blood. The only notable gory moment that I can remember involves the prisoner played by cult favourite Vernon Wells (Commando, Mad Max 2) losing his lunch in a particularly brutal manner.
Christopher Lambert is fine as John Braddick. The character isn't quite as memorable as Connor MacCleod from Highlander or even Raiden from Mortal Kombat, but he's an enjoyable enough action hero. Other notable faces include Jeffrey Coombs (Re-Animator) as one of Braddick's fellow prisoners and Kurtwood Smith (Robocop) as the mandatory sadistic warden.
I also thought that the movie looked rather cheap. It looked more like a made-for-TV movie than a theatrical release. I even had to look up whether this movie was released on cinema or if its was a made-for-TV or straight-to-video release, but it definitely was a theatrical release. It's just that the movie's low budget is rather obvious in some places.
There are better movies out there, but watching Fortress was a pleasant enough way to spend 91 minutes. The gooey death mentioned above might be worth watching this movie on its own.
My rating: 3 stars.
Belli The Sweet Mouse. I hope you like it, friend!Some time in the future, it has become illegal to give birth to more than one child per couple. John Braddick and his wife pregnant Karen are caught trying to cross the border into Canada and are sentenced to prison, no matter that their first child was stillborn. They are both sent to 'The Fortress', a subterranean prison thirty stories deep underneath the desert. Prisoners are implanted with 'Intestinators', devices that will explode if the prisoner misbehaves. Prisoners are put to work excavating and digging the ever-growing prison deeper and the whole complex is controlled by the super-computer Zed-10. Even with everything stacked against him, Braddick is determined to find his wife and bust out of the prison.
Director Stuart Gordon is best known for his gory horror movies (Re-Animator, From Beyond, etc), so you can understand how disappointed I was when I first watched this movie. Characters are blown up into gooey chunks, but any violence mostly happens to the cyborg guards with cheap-looking blue blood. The only notable gory moment that I can remember involves the prisoner played by cult favourite Vernon Wells (Commando, Mad Max 2) losing his lunch in a particularly brutal manner.
Christopher Lambert is fine as John Braddick. The character isn't quite as memorable as Connor MacCleod from Highlander or even Raiden from Mortal Kombat, but he's an enjoyable enough action hero. Other notable faces include Jeffrey Coombs (Re-Animator) as one of Braddick's fellow prisoners and Kurtwood Smith (Robocop) as the mandatory sadistic warden.
I also thought that the movie looked rather cheap. It looked more like a made-for-TV movie than a theatrical release. I even had to look up whether this movie was released on cinema or if its was a made-for-TV or straight-to-video release, but it definitely was a theatrical release. It's just that the movie's low budget is rather obvious in some places.
There are better movies out there, but watching Fortress was a pleasant enough way to spend 91 minutes. The gooey death mentioned above might be worth watching this movie on its own.
My rating: 3 stars.
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