
In 2079, in Washington, the ex-CIA Operative Snow is brutally interrogated, accused of treason against the United States. The chief of the secret service Scott Langral believes that he shot the agent Frank in a hotel room. Meanwhile, the idealistic daughter of the president of the USA, Emilie Warnock, is visiting MS One, a maximum security prison in outer space expecting to find evidence that the prisoners are actually guinea pigs of a huge corporation. When one of her bodygu... (Full plot summary below)
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In 2079, in Washington, the ex-CIA Operative Snow is brutally interrogated, accused of treason against the United States. The chief of the secret service Scott Langral believes that he shot the agent Frank in a hotel room. Meanwhile, the idealistic daughter of the president of the USA, Emilie Warnock, is visiting MS One, a maximum security prison in outer space expecting to find evidence that the prisoners are actually guinea pigs of a huge corporation. When one of her bodyguards loses a hidden pistol to the dangerous prisoner Hydell, he subdues the staff in the central control room and releases the prisoners, including his brother Alex who becomes the leader of the riot. Now the veteran agent Harry Shaw offers freedom to Snow if he succeeds in rescuing the president's daughter. But the idealistic Emilie does not want to leave MS-One without the hostages.
Leave your thoughts about Lockout.
| E! OnlinePeter ParasThe tone of the whole endeavor shouldn't work as well as it does (who does one liners anymore?) but as they say casting is everything. |
| Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumWith no thriller cliché left unused, the gaily outlandish plot is matched by tin-eared dialogue, ripe tough-guy overacting from the very game Pearce, and best-that-she-could acting from Grace. |
| One Guy's OpinionFrank SwietekSeems recycled to begin with but grows increasingly tired and repetitive as the narrative drones on. |
| New York TimesManohla DargisLockout, is as dopey an entertainment as imaginable, but it's also a reminder that the film's star, Guy Pearce, has always had great screen magnetism, to which he has now added a bedrock of muscle. Also: he can act. |
| indieWireEric KohnLockout consists of disciplined action pastiche, but much of its thundering engine borrows from better movies. |
| Sci-Fi Movie PageDaniel M. Kimmel...a solid SF action movie that may not challenge audiences, but it doesn't treat them like idiots either. |
| AV ClubScott TobiasMore than any masculine heroics, Pearce's primary job is maintaining the tone: smug, irreverent, and giddily punch-drunk. |
| Boston GlobeTom RussoIf you're an "Escape From New York" fan, you might have wondered about those rumors about a possible remake...Well, wonder no more. Producer Luc Besson's action factory has beaten everyone to it, stylishly. They're just calling the thing Lockout, and setting it in outer space. |
| eFilmCritic.comPeter SobczynskiYes, it is dumb but it is of the kind of dumbness that makes for strangely compelling viewing for those willing to embrace its pop-art insanities in all their gaudy manifestations. |
| Mania.comRob VauxSince it makes no apologies for what it is, neither should the viewer regret the utterly disposable entertainment on display. |