Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

This is a B-grade production who's producers have gone to lengths to apologise for any inaccuracies, even if it was a very childish, mealy-mouthed apology full of passive-aggressive barbs and vitriol.B grade aside, unknown actors aside, historical inaccuracy aside, even fairly woeful CGI aside, this movie is simply amateurish nonsense.Forget the tiny details of historical accuracy that could have elevated the film, how about just some basic continuity? Towards the end, our plucky ball gunner mentions (and we see) the left hand main undercarriage leg of the Lucky Lady sail towards the earth, completely disconnected from the aircraft. Moments later, another belly shot shows both undercarriage legs firmly ensconced in their respective bays. Not only did the leg fall in oblivion, the cycling of the landing gear apparently didn't occur in the first instance.As for the CGI, I've seen computer games with more thought put into their production.The actors deserve some praise for their various (if predictable) character roles, but beyond that, the producers and their petty whining about the critiques suffered, the directors and their apparent lack of desire for continuity (or even period dialogue) and the CGI 'artists' for their high-school attempts deserve little, if anything.The producers bemoaned the lack of support from organisations with actual B-17s. Perhaps these groups took one look at this motley assortment and thought 'hell, no!'.To those who attempted to compare this with Memphis Belle... really? Have you actually watched either film? I'm going with 'no'.This is just a sad little millennial's's attempt at what they think B- 17 operations must have been like. They've made precious little effort to actually find out much of any reality and for this, they should be ashamed, as the period in question is one rarely covered and deserved so much more.In closing, I'd suggest the producers put their whiny apology as a preface to their next project, because I know full well that, if I had read it prior to watching this, I would have avoided this movie like the plague.

This is a watchable WW2 film, not bad at all, like said in other reviews there are some issues where you can tell they are in front of a green screen. The acting is acceptable and the film has less action than I expected but was still entertaining. One minor gripe I have with this film is the look of the colors, they were just to bright and clean. These soldiers were in the middle of the desert and everything was brightly colored, there should be sand everywhere and clothing dingy along with the planes themselves, they looked just to new to be continuously worked on and repaired. Overall I liked it, maybe some of it is because I am currently reading a book on WW2 bombers which is why I did lean towards watching this film.

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.

Laughable movie. Good CG, but someone did not do their history lesson. While B-17s did operate out of Africa, there were nowhere near the numbers the movie shows. Heck, there weren't that many in Europe at the time! The aircraft depicted are the wrong model and are sporting European camouflage schemes, not North African schemes. Crews in Africa did not walk around in sheep skin flight clothing during the day and it is near freezing at night in the desert. At the operating altitudes of the B-17s and B-24s, the temperatures are at or near 50 degrees below zero. No one is wearing light flight clothing. They are festooned in electrically heated flight suits and flak gear. No one is eating or drinking anything because it would be frozen.In the aerial combat scenes, weapons are fired in bursts for a number of reasons. And, there is no such thing as a P-40 Warhawk dogfighting a Bf-109; the former was hopelessly outclassed by the later. In the more recent movie, "Redtails," there is a reason the black fighter units were employed only as ground support and not fighter escort. The P-40 was incapable of doing the job as fighter to high-altitude bombers.I could go on. Basically, this movie is a video game in which you have no control. But, the crew interaction was well done.