Fortress

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

• Director:Stuart Gordon
• Genre:Action / Sci-Fi
• Runtime:91 minutes

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

Set in a dystopian future the year 2017, in the USA, the US Army officer John Henry Brennick (Christopher Lambert) and his wife Karen S. Brennick (Loryn Locklin) are expecting a second child. Strict one-child policies forbid a second pregnancy, but the couple attempts it anyway because their first child died at birth.

Brennick is caught (Karen escapes initially) and sent to a maximum security prison that is owned and run by the “MenTel Corporation”, rather than the government. Security is extreme in the prison; it is located 30 floors under ground, in the center of a desert. The prison itself is located in front of a deep pit that can only be crossed by a retractable bridge, with the prisoners being kept in cells secured by laser walls.

John Brennick is not allowed to dream in his sleep, and is tortured by a sadistic prison director (Kurtwood Smith). Brennick also learns his wife has been captured as well and is being held in another level of the prison with his unborn child now officially owned by the MenTel Corporation (the company seems to use these children to create cyborgs).

Fortunately, prison director Poe has an eye on Brennick’s wife, Karen. Brennick befriends a computer geek, D-Day (Jeffrey Combs), who finds a way to remove the special “intestinator” chips that are implanted in each prisoner’s intestines, and can cause great pain and even explode when set off by the security system. He also manages to convince fellow inmate Abraham (Lincoln Kilpatrick) that Poe will never allow his parole, and is only using it as a carrot on a stick.

After uploading a virus on the AI computer warden Zed-10 (voice by Carolyn Purdy-Gordon), the group manages to escape. The Brennicks flee to Mexico, where they have the baby (Annika Thomas). Read more

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