Fortress

Christopher Lambert is John Brennick, a retired Black Beret in a future where overpopulation enforces a one-child-per-woman policy. He and his wife had that one child, but it died at birth, when she gets pregnant again, they decide to flee to Mexico.

They're caught, and sent to prison in the Fortress, a huge underground complex 30 stories deep where inmates are fitted with "intestinators," small devices forced into the gastrointestinal system which create pain as a method of discipline,

Once Brennick decides he's had enough, he attempts a breakout, with his cell-mates in tow. One by one they are eliminated by various cyborgs, until there is just the Brennicks and Nino heading for the border in the truck that brought them all to the prison.

Sleeve notes below :

Christopher Lambert is John Brennick, a man about to experience the ultimate in criminal punishment - the Fortress. The setting is the United States in the near future. With resources scare and the population soaring, couples are only allowed to have 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 stories underground and equipped with technology beyond imagination. Each prisoner is implanted with an intestinator, a device designed to inflict severe pain or death for any violation of the prison rules. Escape-proof. Built to hold anything... except an innocent man.

Fortress 2

The sequel continues 10 years later and finds John Brennick, his wife Karen (this time played Beth Toussaint) and his son Danny (Aidan Rea) who have been on the run from the Mental Corporation. Unfortunately their location is discovered and John is recaptured and sent back to prison, only this time it is situated in space orbiting earth around 26 000 miles away.

Now John Brennick has to escape from this seemingly impossible prison to try and find his wife and son, that is if they are indeed still alive.

Sleeve notes below :

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 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 reunited with his wife and son, he has no hope but to try to escape - an idea that was never thought possible...until now!

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