Fortress is a 1992 science fiction action film directed by Stuart Gordon and shot at Warner Bros. Movie World in Queensland, Australia.

Ex-army officer John Henry Brennick and his wife Karen attempt to cross the Canada–United States border to the Free City of Vancouver in the Canadian Soviet Socialist Republic to have a second child.

Brennick is caught, believing Karen to have escaped, and sentenced to thirty-one years at the Fortress, a maximum security prison run by the Men-Tel Corporation.

During a work shift, John's group puts their intestinators in an air-duct and stage a brawl, causing Zed to trigger the devices and blow the duct open to prepare their escape.

Poe promptly flushes the duct with steam and sends in "Strike Clones": networked cyborgs armed with flamethrowers and machine guns.

D-Day hacks into Zed and activates a feedback virus, triggering a complete system crash causing all automated security to fail, allowing the prisoners to escape.

[2] While the script was written in mind with someone more physically imposing like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gordon felt the main character should be more of an everyman which lead to Christopher Lambert being cast in the role.

Columbia TriStar also released the film on VHS, Laserdisc and DVD in some other territories in 1993–2004, while Sony Pictures Home Entertainment re-released the DVDs from 2006–2017.

[4] In July 2017, Nameless Media (under the label of SPHE) also released the film on Blu-ray and DVD, including a Steelbook covers and a figurine model of the Strike Clone.

[7] Stephen Holden of The New York Times said: "Like so many other futuristic movies, Fortress is a lot better at setting up its premise than in developing a story around it, [but] for all its faults, [it] has an unusually energetic imagination.

[...] The beauty of this movie is that it's not terribly ambitious; [director Stuart] Gordon knew that it was not meant to be this generation's defining science fiction film, and so instead had fun with it.

The characters are colorful and engaging, and the actors are b-movie all-stars; the story moves along at a fair clip; and the prison itself is a novel setting, with plenty of inconsistencies in future technology but none that sit up and insist that you notice them".

[9] James Berardinelli of ReelViews said: "Fortress has [...] an impressive visual style, [...] the set design is excellent, and the action scenes are well-paced, [but it's] hampered by a poorly-constructed story line [and] never gets on track.