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Review: Fortress: Sniper’s Eye

At the end of the first “Fortress” , Bruce Willis shoots bad guy Chad Michael Murray and leaves him for dead. We pick up two weeks later as Willis finds himself having to rescue Murray’s wife (Natali Yura) from gangsters. He brings her back to the title compound in order to recover from her ordeal. Also at the bunker are Willis’ son Jesse Metcalfe who has romantically taken up with employee Kelly Greyson, as well as Greyson’s newly arrived mother and sister, and we also have returning security guy Michael Sirow and his main squeeze. Conflict arises when the clearly not dead Murray turns up to get techy Metcalfe to (force him to) help him on his latest criminal scheme.   Directed by Josh Sternfeld ( “As Blood Runs Deep” with Nick Stahl, Kellan Lutz, Michael Sirow, and Jonathan Tucker), this cheapo 2022 sequel reunites several of the actors from the first film in a film that amazingly manages to be even worse. Screenwriter Alan Horsnail once again scripts from a story by actor Emile