Fortress / Fortress 2: Re-entry (ej svensk text) (Blu-ray)

Fortress: CHRISTOPHER LAMBERT, the sensational star of Highlander and Gunmen, is John Brennick, a man about to experience the ultimate in criminal punishment - the FORTRESS. The setting is the United States in the future. With resources scarce and the population soaring, couples are allowed just one child. Former Black Beret Captain John Brennick and his wife Karen have broken the law. After the loss of their first child, Karen is pregnant again. Caught and tried for their crime, they are sent to the Fortress, the most sophisticated maximum security prison on the planet, a jail built 30 storeys underground and equipped with technology beyond imagination. Each prisoner is implanted with an "intesinator", a device designed to inflict severe pain or death for any violation of the prison rules. Unrelenting and unforgiving, the Fortress is a hell-hole prison of the future. Escape-proof. Built to hold anything... except an innocent man. Fortress 2: In the not-so-distant future, Earth is controlled by a giant corporation called Men-Tel. After escaping from a maximum security prison known as The Fortress, renegade John Brennick (Christopher Lambert) and his wife and son are fugitives on the run. But Brennick is soon apprehended again and placed in a futuristic state-of-the-art maximum security prison recently completed by Men-Tel. Orbiting 26,000 miles from Earth, the prison houses the planet's most fierce criminals, forcing them to perform dreaded space labour amidst meteor showers and other harsh elements. Here, Brennick is locked down by a hi-tech security jail cells and surrounded by an elaborate system of computer surveillance devices, including a camera placed inside his body. If Brennick ever wants to be re-united with his wife and son, he has no hope but to try to escape - an idea that was never thought possible... until now!