Fortress (1993)

Voti degli utenti:

5.5/10   

Regista:

Stuart Gordon

Scrittori (WGA):

Troy Neighbors (story) &
Steven Feinberg (story) ...

Data di uscita:

3 settembre 1993 (USA)

Genere:

Azione | Fantascienza

Slogan:

A Prison of the Future. A High-Tech Hell. Built to Hold Anything... Except an Innocent Man.

Plot:

A futuristic prison movie. Protagonist and wife are nabbed at a future US emigration point with an illegal baby during population control...

Plot Keywords:

Prison | Futuristic | Escape | Female Nudity | Severed Arm

Premi:

2 nominations

Recensioni degli utenti:

Fortress: So Bad It Is Excellent

Cast

Christopher Lambert	...	John Henry Brennick
Kurtwood Smith	...	Prison Director Poe
Loryn Locklin	...	Karen B. Brennick
Clifton Collins Jr.	...	Nino Gomez (as Clifton Gonzalez Gonzalez)
Lincoln Kilpatrick	...	Abraham
Jeffrey Combs	...	D-Day, the Computer Geek
Tom Towles	...	Stiggs, Maddox's Buddy
Vernon Wells	...	Maddox
Carolyn Purdy-Gordon	...	Zed-10 (voice)
Alan Zitner	...	Claustrophobic Prisoner
Denni Gordon	...	Karen's Cellmate
Eric Briant Wells	...	Border Guard
Dragicia Debert	...	Bio Scanner Guard
Heidi Stein	...	Pregnant Woman
Harry Nurmi	...	Guard #1

Alias:

2013: la fortezza (Italy) [it]
La fortezza - Segregati nello spazio (Italy) (TV title) [it]

Durata:

95 min

Nazionalità:

Australia | USA

Lingua:

Inglese

Colore:

Colore

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sonoro:

Dolby SR

Divieti:

Finland:K-18 (uncut) | Australia:M | Iceland:16 | Finland:K-15 (uncut DVD version) | France:-12 | Germany:18 | Netherlands:16 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | USA:R | Argentina:13 | Finland:K-16 (cut)

Luoghi riprese:

Queensland, Australia

Compagnia:

Davis Entertainment

Curiosità:

Nota caratteristica regista: [Stuart Gordon] [shovel]A shovel is used as a weapon.

Errori:

Continuità: When the movie starts, John has short hair. When he wakes up after being "brain dead" for 4 months, his hair has grown way too much; about a year's worth.

Citazioni:

Karen B. Brennick: What are you?
Prison Director Poe: I am enhanced.
Karen B. Brennick: You're not human. You're...
Prison Director Poe: A monster? A freak? The Mentel Corporation has transformed me into a more efficient human being. Once a month, I absorb amino acids, wasting neither food nor fuel. When my kind are in the majority, there will be no more world hunger, no overpopulation.
Karen B. Brennick: You don't sleep, you don't eat... You can't make love, can you?
Prison Director Poe: But I can love.
Karen B. Brennick: Are there others like you?
Prison Director Poe: Not many as advanced, but yes. I was one of Mentel's first babies. It was very special.
[...]

Collegamenti:

Versione di Lock Up (1989)

Colonna sonora:

DIE KUNST DER FUGE BWV 1080

Fortress: So Bad It Is Excellent

I won't mince words. I love Fortress.

If technology ever produces a prison where inmates are held in line by golfball size explosives/electro-shock units imbedded in their intestines, it may look something like this...(how the poo gets around the device is never discussed ; ) )

In my opinion, it is more fun than any other Christophe(r) Lambert film when appreciated with the correct level of expectations. If I had paid $7.50 to see a movie like this at theater, I'd be a bit let down, but having split a two dollar rental fee amongst friends, I was more than happy to watch, in fact I believe I watched it twice that first time I rented it. Then it began to grow on me. I would definitely go see this at a film show now, but this movie is an acquired taste, to be sure. I've had to show this to a lot of people over the years and have recently acquired the latest DVD version, and I am waiting to get the out of print Sony issue in widescreen soon! But of course, I have never spent more than ten bucks in my life towards this film, renting and owning included, if you find it for five bucks, buy it.

Highlander fans, Kurtwood Smith Fans, Battlestar Galactica Fans, all should take a look at this Camp Classic.

RANDOM INTESTINATION!!!!