In the future having more than one baby is illegal, Christopher Lambert and his trophy wife Loryn Locklin has broken this law, so they are sent to a futuristic prison where sadistic Kurtwood Smith runs things with excruciating fury of the worst degree. After proving himself as a man not to be messed with (If you catch my drift) Lambert rallies the prisoners and leads a breakout of the highest order and causes general chaos throughout. Christopher Lambert has always been hit and miss, he made the excellent Highlander, made forgettable comedies and then made the dungheap sequel everyone knows about (The Quickening, for those fortunate not to have seen it) however Fortress represents one of Lambert's best works, which is good in that it's consistently watchable and interesting through out but bad because it isn't fantastic and which speaks how good Lambert's movies in general were. Fortress however earns most of it's points with the atmosphere as Gordon (Who helmed the excellent Re-Animator) puts in a style which overall makes the prison clichés elude the mind as we are convinced that there is enough creativity in it's story to work beyond the prison foundation it was build on. Fortress however is indeed a B.movie and although it has it's share of plot holes (How are dreams detected and how come you can't dream about sex and yet prison rape is allowed?) and flaws but for an entertaining sci-fi prison thriller, Fortress works more often than not.
* *1/2 out of 4-(Pretty good)
* *1/2 out of 4-(Pretty good)