The Fortress II: The Return

Movie
German title	The Fortress II: The Return
Original title	Fortress 2: Re-Entry
Country of production	USA Luxembourg
original language	English
Publishing year	2000
length	92 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Geoff Murphy
script	John Flock, Peter Doyle
production	John Flock
music	Christopher Franke
camera	Hiro Narita
cut	James R. Symons
occupation
Christopher Lambert : John Henry Brennick Patrick Malahide : Peter Teller Liz May Brice : Elena Rivera Willie Garson : Stanley Nussbaum Yuji Okumoto : Sato Fredric Lehne : Gordon Nick Brimble : Max Polk Beth Toussaint : Karen Brennick Pam Grier : Susan Mendenhall John Sharian : Hickey Barbara Sarafian : Hard

Fortress II: The Return (original title: Fortress 2: Re-Entry, reference titles Fortress 2 - The Fortress ) is an American science fiction thriller from director Geoff Murphy from the year 2000 . The action film is a sequel to Fortress from 1993 and takes place ten years after the events of the 1st part. The film was released in Germany on August 8, 2000 on VHS .

action

The indomitable escaped prisoner John Brennick, a former resistance fighter, lives in a totalitarian, perfectly monitored terror regime in the near future and has been hiding in the woods with his wife and son for years. When a couple of former like-minded comrades visit him to persuade him to attempt an attack on a power station, they are tracked down by security forces. The group is arrested and transferred to a futuristic high-security prison for violating the “de-individualization regulations” - an intergalactic high-tech prison in the depths of space, the “fortress”. His family, however, remains hidden.

Inhumane conditions prevail here. The inmates of the prison are implanted with probes with which the prison administration can induce certain behavioral modifications and thus control them. The inmates are also forced to do physical labor and are harassed by sadistic guards. As inmate 27609, Brennick is also provided with the same implant and shipped to the modern super prison, which is in orbit of the earth. Escape seems impossible, but thoughts of escape and an enormous will to survive drive him.

His first attempt failed miserably, which resulted in difficult prison conditions. Little by little, however, he found like-minded people, with whose help he convicted the corrupt and sadistic prison administration and finally escaped from the floating prison camp with a small group of like-minded people. He returns to his family at the end of the film.

Reviews

“Effective mixture of action and science fiction elements, the criticism of totalitarian forms of government formulated cursory at best, but relies on tension without too sensational hardship. Actually and creatively uninteresting, the film offers ready-made genre entertainment for fans. "

- Lexicon of international film

Web links

• The Fortress II: The Return of the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Fortress II: The Return in the online film database
• The Fortress II: The Return at Rotten Tomatoes (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Fortress II: The Return. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .