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Bookmark this pageFortress II: Re-entry (1999)
Director: Geoff Murphy
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From Time Out Film Guide
Recaptured by Men-Tel after ten years on the run, 'multiple-breeder' John Brennick (Lambert) is plotting escape from a high tech prison 26,000 miles up in space. But enough complicated analysis. Buckle up, keep up, shut up and buy into this, or you're gonna get lost. Hey you! Need a video recorder to bypass the surveillance apparatus wired to your optic nerve? Just 'stitch one together' from a few bits of wire! Watch out! Meteorite shower! That was close, need a shuttle? No worries! There's one arriving in about 30 seconds! No matter that the villains are as confused by the Men-Tel gibberish blaring out of TV screens as the Brennick-led dopes they're supposed to be guarding. Coherence is hardly the point of a movie in which men in shiny boiler suits go about muttering 'This is some real bullshit.' Anyway, the question isn't who's in charge here, but how any of these headless chickens ever managed to build Skycell in the first place.Author: SS
Cast & crew
Director: Geoff Murphy
Producer: John Flock
Cast: Christopher Lambert, Patrick Malahide, Liz May Brice, Willie Garson, Yuki Okumoto, Fredric Lane, Nick Brimble, David Roberson, Aidan Rea full cast
Genre(s): Science Fiction
Duration: 93 mins
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