Fortress 2: Re-Entry ** (2000, Christopher Lambert, Beth Toussaint, Willie Garson) – Classic Movie Review 2336

Christopher Lambert returns as prisoner Brennick in director Geoff Murphy’s lively but forgettable 2000 action sci-fi thriller sequel to the 1992 original, this time with co-stars Beth Toussaint, Willie Garson, Aidan Rea, Patrick Malahide, Liz May Brice and David Roberson.

It’s just your basic wham-bam futuristic actioner, with Lambert again leaping around a lot as the ex-black beret captain John Brennick, who, in the original, was arrested with his wife for illegal pregnancy, and taken to the ultra-sinister high-tech subterranean maximum security prison of the title, whence he escaped and is on the run.

Now Brennick and his family are captured once again by the evil Men-tel corporation, but this time for Brennick escape is not so simple from the new sophisticated fortress, as it is orbiting in outer space 26,000 miles above Earth.

John Flock and Peter Doyle’s screenplay is based on the original characters and story by Steve Feinberg and Troy Neighbors. Flock appears in the film as the Russian convict Bozinski. Toussaint takes over from Loryn Locklin as Karen Brennick.

The movie takes place seven years after the previous one when John’s son was born yet now he is 10 years old. Rated R or 15 for violence, language and nudity when a naked woman taking a shower is used to distract the guards.

© Derek Winnert 2015 Classic Movie Review 2336

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