There are a lot of positive and negative things to write about The Fortress. Let's start with the positive. The cinematography was great, clear well shot images of good quality. Credits to Dong-hyuk Hwang for that. The battle scenes were quite impressive and made this movie watchable. The negative things are the repetitive scenes during a movie that just feels too long. The acting is like most of the time with Asian movie not great, too much overacting, yelling when it's not necessary and so on. From the Asian movies the Korean ones are the best but this one is disappointing compared to what I've seen before. The story is worth telling but due to the repetitive submissive scenes it all felt dragged out. There's only a certain amount of bowing and asking for decapitation a man can endure in a movie and here we reached a world record. On a side note, if those are the real hats they were wearing at that time they just won the award for most unfunctional silly hats.
Review of The Fortress
