Fortress of Amerikkka

1989

Action / Comedy

6
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 80%
IMDb Rating 4.2/10 10 474 474

Director

Top cast

Eric Louzil as Mercenary
Xavier Barquet as Sarge
Lisa Star as Motel hooker
Robert Axelrod as Gun Store Salesman
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924.73 MB
1280*682
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 40 min
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1.68 GB
1920*1024
English 2.0
NR
us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 40 min
Seeds 1

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by lor_

Low-grade, even by Troma standards

My review was written in May 1989 after a Cannes Film Festival Market screening."Fortress of Amerikkka", a/k/a "The Mercenaries", is an old-fashioned sexploitaton film that will appeal to that fringe which enjoys truly bad acting, t&a and gore effects.Second Troma release from filmmaker Eric Louzil, pic is a slight step from his "Lust for Freedom", but still suffers from awkward direction and the annoying Troma practice of adding hokey dialog and sound effects to fill up dead air.Handsome, low-key Gene LeBrok (he looks like Christopher Reeve playing Superman) plays an Indian halfbreed fesh out of prison who has a score to settle with the Georgia County, California, sheriff (stolid David Crane) who killed his brother in cold blood.Personal grudges soon take a backseat to the main problem: a band of mercenary soldiers calling themselves "Fortress of Amerikkka", led by evil William J. Kulzer, is camped nearby. Instead of mere survivalist wargames, this coed bunch is killing folks right and left. Pic's anticlimax -coming after the sheriff is wiped out -is the townsfolk and cops banding together to fight the mercenaries.Until then, Louzil contrives to include as many scenes of women going topless as time will permit. Heroine Kellee Bradley abstains, but exotic porno star Kascha shows off her surgical implants memoably, given a run for he money by busty blonde Karen Michaels. Oddly enough, the statuesque blond featured on the film's poster doesn't show up in the film; she's the same model who was postergirl for anothr recent pic, "Shotgun", without appearing on screen int that one either.While LeBrok glides theough the picture without losing his cool, there is hysterically bad acting provided by Kulzer (a regular in Louzil films who also handles the stuntwork). Crane and especially Michaels, who smiles (unintentionally) in the face of danger. Pic's campiest scene occurs when Kascha and her boyfriend recite patriotic sentiments, echoed by th foolish narration.Apart from scenic views of forests and mountains, film's technical credits are weak. The background score is extremely poor.
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Reviewed by BandSAboutMovies 5 / 10

I liked it!

Of all the Troma directors, I seem to enjoy the movies of Eric Louzil (Class of Nuke 'Em High Parts II and III, Bikini Beach Race) the most. They just move quick, often don't laugh at their own jokes and have just what you want: sex and violence.

In this one, a secret mercenary team called the Fortress of Amerikka is terrorizing the entire nation. They've been hired by the elite to destabilize the country and increase their control. Yes, this was made in 1989 and not today.

Troma City, California is where the last stand of American freedom will happen. Only John Whitecloud (Gene LeBrock, Father Peter from Beyond Darkness and Dr. Peter Houseman in Metamorphosis) and Jennifer (Kellee Bradley) can stop them.

Kascha, who was in plenty of adult films and was in Caged Fury using the name Alison LePriol, is in this. You know who isn't? The blonde girl on the poster.

Fortress of Amerikka was famously a dark and murky movie on VHS. Luckily, Vinegar Syndrome has fixed that and released an uncensored version that looks great. The actual movie is about a hundred minutes of rambling violence and nudity that goes nowhere and the idea that it's a revenge picture between Whitecloud and the sheriff who murdered his brother is, well, I guess what happens even if it feels like it takes forever to get there. Also John Whitecloud gets his ass kicked so many times in this movie.

There's a beheading, there's nudity every two minutes, the politics are more muddled than a Cannon movie, a couple playing ukelele gets murdered, almost a whole town gets killed...this movie is a mess and I wallowed in it.

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