GurlyIamBeach Instant Favorite.

Stoutor It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Curt Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

Leofwine_draca FORTRESS 2 gets a lot of flak from a lot of people, but I think the criticism is unjustified. Sure, go into this film expecting CITIZEN KANE and you'll be disappointed. Go into this film expecting the same level of quality as the first FORTRESS movie offered and you'll be disappointed again. But there we go – sequels have always been subject to the law of diminishing returns and this film is no different. The cast are gone, apart from the lead actor; the story is a simple retread of the first film's, and there's less money all round which means the effects are worse and the film has an emptier feel to it as a whole.Despite these negatives, the film as a whole is fun for a B-movie. It's short, fast paced, and never runs out of steam. There's plenty of incident along the way and, while most of it is derived from similar stuff in the first film, it was fun to revisit a B-movie classic. Stuart Gordon did the first film and while nobody can match his gory take on the genre, Kiwi director Geoff Murphy directed one of my all-time favourites, UNDER SIEGE 2 and does a perfectly good job here. The CGI space effects are pretty cheesy but then that's the film's tone as a whole: you can't watch Lambert battle a guy with a flamethrower or get ejected into space only to fly back into the airlock and expect to take it seriously.As for Lambert himself, he puts in another sterling turn, one of his most likable yet. I've never not enjoyed this guy in a movie and I think he's seriously underrated. There's an interesting supporting cast here too. Brit Patrick Malahide is a bit subdued as the main bad guy – the trouble is, Kurtwood Smith did this stuff really well in the last film and Malahide doesn't have a chance to come close. But there are bit parts from engaging character actors. Pam Grier has an extremely weird extended cameo, and seems totally out of place; veteran nasty old guy Carl Chase is a prison thug; Nick Brimble, FRANKENSTEIN UNBOUND's monster, is a fellow convict; Liz May Brice is a pretty prisoner whose lengthy shower scene – a running gag in the movie – is one of the highlights. Sure, it's not fine art, it's not even a great movie. But for a cheap sci-fi B-flick it never gets boring or too stupid, and I came away with a warm fuzzy feeling. So yeah, I liked it.

JoeB131 I guess this was a sequel to another Christopher Lambert film I never saw mostly because I avoid things with Christopher Lambert in them. But the plot line here is that his character is recaptured by the evil company that controls everything and put on a space station where the Warden is planning to make a superweapon and threaten the world.In short, it's every bad prison movie you've ever seen, except it's in space.This might have been interesting with better dialog writers and not having Lambert in it. But this is the movie we got, where another sad franchise is put out of its misery by putting it in space.

varghesejunior Fortres 2 is Scifi thriller like its Prequel Fortress.It is a very contemporary film, and a good sequel.The story continues with John Brennick, who 10 yrs later is still hiding from the Mentel corporation (whose prison 'fortress' he had destroyed 10 yrs ago during his escape from there), living in North America with his wife and son, gets apprehended again by Mentel and is sentenced to death in 'fortress 2' which is a space based prison . But the positive minded and brave John sets about to find a way of of Fortress 2 too and save his family on earth.Storyline great, music is good, stunts are cool.Bad thing is some very explicit nudity, but only that.Like The prequel ,this is also watchable

DigitalRevenantX7 As far as prison films go, FORTRESS was the most ridiculous & over the top, as well as being relentlessly stupid (the Hong Kong flick STORY OF RICKY was also over the top but was actually meant as a comic book film). The biggest surprise about it was the fact that it was very successful in international release. So successful that it gained a sequel half a decade later.John Brennick, one of the only three people to escape the Fortress, is living the quiet life with his wife Karen & young son Danny. When the Men-Tel Corporation sends in a crack commando squad to capture the family, John is recaptured while his family escapes. Sent to a new 'escape-proof' prison, Brennick tries to bust out – not an easy thing to do when you're trapped in a space station orbiting the Earth.The thing about Fortress 2: Re-Entry is that it is not as bad as the original. Sure, it has its moments of stupidity – the space station has gravity but does not rotate (although that same fault is used by almost every space-set sci-fi film); shuttles dock with the station as if they were regular planes & the prisoners are sent into space with spacesuits that don't have tethers; a prisoner manages to wire an optical implant onto a cockroach & those same implants are inserted into the prisoners' necks but somehow transmit sensory information to the prison's computer – but it is not as stupid as the first film was (despite the fact that two of the first film's scribes wrote the story for this one).To its credit, Re-Entry has some passable action scenes – a highlight being a scene where Lambert takes on a flamethrower-wielding prisoner while armed with a makeshift weapon & shield; the climax is more spectacular, with the prisoners trying to escape by shuttle while the station breaks apart; & the visual effects, while consisting of cheap CGI, are competent. Not to mention a couple of plot points that make for good sci-fi – the part where Lambert is placed in a bubble situated on the station's exterior, which exposes him to direct sunlight (which is very hot in space) & freezing cold alternately, & a cool scene where Lambert is blown out of the airlock without a spacesuit & tries to get back into the station – without exploding due to exposure to the vacuum (a scientific fact).As far as acting goes, Lambert does his naughty schoolboy impression while Patrick Malahide tries to play the prison warden role by being campy – not a good thing. John Flock (the film's producer & co-scribe) makes a cameo as a psychotic Russian prisoner.