6/10Exhilarating and disturbing but with epic effects for its time.
A futuristic prison movie. Protagonist and wife are nabbed at a future US emigration point with an illegal baby during population control.
A jail break theme film that explores the idea of population control in form of banning the birth of second child, through some extreme methods. Fortress feels like a mixture of Matrix, 1981, Die Hard, and the Great Escape.
The special effects (considering when this was made, i am assuming very little CGI was used for this film) was amazing. What looks like actual props and special effects make up played a huge part in giving this film the gory, disturbing and almost realistic appeal.
Fortress has some very detailed and scarily accurate prediction of technology and the possible result of its development. The damage and deadliness of computers and machines are well explored in this film. This film is not entirely all just a fictional sci-fi movie as some technology actually does exist today (maybe not in the exact form as in the movie).
Flaws of the film: some events happened too fast, wrapped up too quickly and is quite predictable
This film got only a 5.6 on IMDB, I felt that the score should have been higher as it is pretty exciting and has a lot of character development. It's one of those you either HATE it or LOVE it type of film.
