InspireGato Film Perfection

Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Roman Sampson One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Kimball Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

s_podeyn The 109's were not marked correctly. The theater bands should be white not yellow. Yellow bands are for the eastern front. The bombers were not marked correctly also. The markings were for 8th Air Force. The maintainers were falsely represented. I'm a retired Air Force maintainer and I've done a few tours in the sand box. I don't care if it's -50 or 150 degrees we work the aircraft. I've done 8hr shifts and I've done 48 hour plus shifts. The only thing that's acceptable is fix the bird.

grantss July, 1943. US bomber squadrons are bombing Sicily in preparation for the Allies' invasion. One such bomber is the Lucky Lass, a B- 17. When her commander is killed, the co-pilot, Lt. Wally McAllister, is given command of the plane. A rookie co-pilot, 2nd Lt. Mike Schmidt, joins the crew. Schmidt immediately alienates himself by not joining in and making some very basic errors on missions. Now he must regain their trust and support...Amateurish in just about every way. Story is quite basic, clumsy and predictable. Direction is paint-by-numbers stuff, with no attempt at engaging the audience or anything approaching grittiness. Performances are hammy at best, and generally quite cringeworthy. Even the CGI, which in 2012 should be an easy tick, feels like something from a video game, and not a very good one.However, decent enough battle scenes though, and a reasonably powerful final few scenes, make this not a total write-off. Still not worth watching though.

ztigr This was no Oscar winner, and the story played like a bunch of thrown together scenes from a diary. The acting was mediocre to poor, even the few talents I recognized didn't elevate the status quo. What I was amazed at were that the special effects were so superior for a low budget movie. I read that all of the plains were digital as they couldn't afford to have real planes. You could have fooled me, the plains looked plenty real. The aerial battles were superior, and I hope the company that did the SFx has a lot of success...they deserve it.

liam-campbell8-965-818974 It's a real shame people are dissing the trailers for Fortress entirely on the special effects, if you look at the trailer on YouTube you are bound to find the usual "This is worse than PS2 graphics!" quote.Yes, the special effects in Fortress are not the greatest but it has a good story with well developed characters and good performances to go along with them.If you stick around to the end of the credits there is a little message from the filmmakers stating they know about errors but really wanted to make a film that honored the bomber crews of WWII.For the filmmakers dedication and sincere motives, I seriously recommend Fortress, the passion and energy the filmmakers put into the film shows and as a result Fortress is a great entertaining film.