Fortress (2012)

What makes it different from others?

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

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.

I stopped it after the first air battle. So many flaws. The bombers were never that close in formation. They would have shot each other down!They also had flak helmets on when in combat.I just could not watch any more. Time to find a better war movie.

I joined the site just so I could rate this movie.You can tell when a movie is made with people that care about the materiel being presented, and this movie screams of it.The story and the actors are the focus, not how much crapola you can cram into a movie to wow the audience.CGI is a little rough in spots, but it just emphasizes the story and actors even more.Oh one complaint though, in the cockpit, the second rivet on the left hand spanner is .0000987 off center from the rest, and just about ruined the movie for me, therefore I docked it a point...

This movie was a pleasant surprise. The CG of the air combat action was really well done. Story line was a little thin, but fair for a WWII movie, Better than most movies made in the 40's and 50's.It showed what those men in the Air force had to contend with, the flack you could walk on, the fighter planes and mechanical problems which caused so many problems. These were and still are the terrors of air war.The use of alcohol by all the members of the aircraft crew seemed excessive to me. But was probably a true coping outlet that made life bearable with such dreadful losses during the air war of WW II. It has been estimated that the losses of all the airmen in the nations in that conflict exceeded 250,000 men. Good movie on Netflix.