The director, Stuart Gordon, and his screenwriters (Steve Feinberg, Troy Neighbors, and Terry Curtis Fox) scatter funny touches and even some signs of warped intelligence throughout this futuristic jailbreak movie.

NEWYORKER: Fortress

Stuart Gordon Nash, of the District of Columbia, to be an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia for the term of fifteen years, vice Rafael Diaz, term expired.

WHITEHOUSE: THE WHITE HOUSE

Even if the climax feels fantastical (well suited to the horror-friendly talents of the director, Stuart Gordon), you should stay for the battered irony of the anticlimax, which finds our hero settling down, once again, to the rigors of a regular life.

NEWYORKER: Edmond