Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

Fantastic!

brilliant actors, brilliant editing

Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

Very disappointing for a movie by Luc Besson, but this is a pure action-in-space-save-the-girl kind of crap. And why do you have to put sound effects in space??? There's a vacuum is space!!!The script is just a collection of clichés. The characters are boring and has nothing much to say.Plus they got sued by the directory of "Escape from New York" for copying the plot of the movie and got fined by 450,000 euro...I don't have anything to add, but IMDb forces me to write more line. I don't have anything to add, but IMDb forces me to write more line. I don't have anything to add, but IMDb forces me to write more line.

Lockout (2012) starring Guy Pearce (LA Confidental, Memento). Pearce's is always a welcome face to see on-screen, but in Lockout he gets the rare opportunity to be funny. And he is, in the style of a deadpan, wisecracking '80s action hero- his character, Snow, is an agent who's falsely accused of murder along with something about the selling of state secrets. He's scheduled to spend a few decades in stasis on the experimental space jail MS One, the costs of which are being defrayed by a long-distance interstellar exploration company test-driving its cryosleep technology on a population no one's concerned about, even if it sometimes causes brain damage. Before Snow can be put under and ferried out to the big penitentiary in the sky, MS One crumbles with surprising ease after psychotic prisoner Hydell (Joseph Gilgun)) gets hold of a weapon. The other inmates are woken up and hostages are taken, one of them Emilie Warnock (Maggie Grace), the president's daughter, who was there on a humanitarian mission.

"Ow! (INJECTS) That'll freeze the nerves in this spot for 24 hours. You want some on your mouth? "Don't expect a cinematic masterpiece when watching this movie, but expect it to be an entertaining empty-headed action sci-fi with Guy Pearce as a purebred John McClane, in an ultra-modern prison in space, who must save the president's daughter. A clichéd kind of Musketeers story with the slogan "One for all, all for one" replaced by "One against all". A well-known and popular story with the hero fighting against a whole horde of scum, just about 500 murderers and rapists who awoke from an artificial nap, and helping a comely damsel in distress. You can safely call it "Die Hard In Space".The story itself isn't really special and feels rather incoherent. Don't be discouraged by the terrible chase scene at the beginning of the film. That looked terribly outdated and it seemed like it came straight out some kind of C64 game. Some parts are fairly unlikely (including the wind tunnel and the disguise trick of presidential daughter which gave me a "Yeah sure" feeling) and the predictability level is immense high. But besides that, the action-part can be considered very satisfactory and particularly the characters are interesting enough to turn it into an entertaining movie to fill up the evening.Guy "The Rover" Pearce enjoys himself here as the quite burly muscular bundle "Snow", who behaves in a rather fatalistic way and pulls every now and then a dry one-liner or sarcastic remark out of his hat, what provides for some chuckle moments. Once again the comparison with the young Bruce Willis is made quickly. The conversations between him and Maggie Grace (as Emilie Warnock) are highly entertaining at times. But especially the two criminal brothers Alex (Vincent Regan) and Hydell (Joseph Gilgun) steal the show (a kind of "Jekyll and Hyde" interpretation). Two extremely dangerous criminals with Alex as a born leader. But especially Gilgun is brilliant at times as the total crazy Hydell with a heavy English accent. He looks quite terrifying and spoils the plans of his brother over and over again (a stupid decision which Alex makes again and again).Besides the imaginative design of a space prison where dangerous criminals are piled up (literally) to serve their sentence while being in a coma, a whole bunch of hilarious one liners and action scenes filled with crazy prisoners, in the end this is just a third-rate simple action movie with a linear storyline. A film that fits in our consumer society. Consume, digest and forget. My favorite part is the beginning of the film where a punch and a crooked cigarette are the attributes. Once again it immediately reminded me of a similar scene from "The Last Boy Scout". I assume that Bruce has done it all before.More reviews here : http://bit.ly/1KIdQMT

Lockout (2012): Dir: James Mather, Stephen St. Leger / Cast: Guy Pearce, Maggie Grace, Peter Stormare, Lennie James, Vincent Regan: One can only wish that they were locked out of the theatre and spared the time wasted to view it. The title somewhat symbolizes fact or truth as Guy Pearce plays a former government agent framed for a murder he did not commit. It regards a space station where the most dangerous criminals are kept frozen, and the President's daughter ventures up there to evaluate the program. Due to extreme stupidity that only the biggest of idiots could muster, the criminals get loose and all hell breaks lose leaving little miss V.I.P stranded. The answer is to send Pearce up to get her out. From there it is a lot of blowing criminals up and kicking ass. We know where this is headed and it is all a load of crap. Pearce manages to maintain confidence with a few funny lines during an interrogation, but Maggie Grace as the President's daughter is an absolute joke. First off, she's hot, therefore making us supposedly give a crap. Secondly, she apparently cares for the other hostages but this also comes off as a contrived excuse to make her look good for being White House loyalty. Her best scene arrives when Pearce punches her in the face in an attempt to make her blend in. Peter Stormare and Lennie James are a waste as secret agents. Vincent Regan plays the pitiful leader of the revolt in the prison and he is about as intimidating as a tampon commercial. While the production is fair and action fast paced, the screenplay is such as yawner that the film is deserving of a walk out and a lock out both. Score: 3 ½ / 10