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Year:	2005
Country of origin:	Australia / USA
Director:	Stuart Gordon
Genre:	Total Prison Recall Break?
Starring:	Christopher Lambert, Kurtwood Smith, Loryn Locklin
Rating:	5/5
IMDB link:	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106950/
Tagline:	A Prison of the Future. A High-Tech Hell. Built to Hold Anything... Except an Innocent Man.
Favourite line:	"Intestinate!"

Let me confess something right off the bat: I'm a massive Stuart Gordon fanboy and, though I haven't seen everything he's made quite yet, I've seen most and am yet to be disappointed.
OK, that's out of the way, so let's get down to some serious reviewing here:
Fortress is fucking brilliant.
I could end it there, sign off with that single, definitive statement and feel reasonably content, but I feel the need to justify myself somewhat as, having read other reviews of this movie, it seems I am in the minority.
So, instead of writing a usual review, I'm just going to list the reasons Fortress is fucking brilliant.
Because it is.
Fortress is fucking brilliant.
Simple.
And here's why:

1 - It feels just like Total Recall.
2 - Christof Camembert is at his mumbling best
3 - There's gore
4 - There's women in prison
5 - There are plenty of dodgy, 80's-tastic special effects, even though this was 3 years into the next decade
6 - It's directed by Stuart 'Re-Animator,' 'From Beyond,' 'Stuck,' 'Dagon' Gordon.
7 - There is a torture device called an Intestinator.
8 - Robocop's Clarence Boddicker is the main villain.
9 - The cybernetic sentries are utterly useless.
10 - It's directed by Stuart Gordon. Again, yes, but worth repeating.
11 - Oh yeah. Fortress is fucking brilliant.