Critical Reaction
Almar Haflidason of the BBC said: " a film that sorely lacks energy various moments of action are ruined by poor camera angles and clumsy editing, while it may lack the grand set of Fortress, it does boast some reasonable CGI effects and is slightly more entertaining in a cheap kind of way." Kim Newman of the British Film Institute's Sight & Sound said the film "lacks wit and grit, though director Geoff Murphy makes it a decent enough ride."
Nathan Shumate of Cold Fusion Video Reviews said the film is "at best, a pale imitation of the original Fortress. On its own, it’s a passable movie, with an adequate budget both for sets and CGI space effects. Too bad it had to be a sequel to a superior movie, instead of something wholly its own." The Science Fiction, Horror, and Fantasy Film Review said: "The action scenes are run of the mill the special effects are okay and the show at least mounts to a passable action climax as the space station explodes, the scripters have not endeavoured to approach this film in any more intelligent a way than they did the original."
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