Synopsis
Set in the near future, Lockout follows a falsely convicted ex-government agent , whose one chance at obtaining freedom lies in the dangerous mission of rescuing the President's daughter from rioting convicts at an outer space maximum security prison.
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Cast
- Guy PearceSnow
- Maggie GraceEmilie Warnock
- Vincent ReganAlex
- Joseph GilgunHydell
- Lennie JamesHarry Shaw
- Peter StormareScott Langral
- Jacky IdoHock
- Tim PlesterMace
- Mark TankersleyBarnes
- Anne-Solenne HatteKathryn
Recommendations
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Time Out
Lockout is the kind of manly nonsense no one wants to make anymore. - 80
Boxoffice Magazine
Lockout isn't high art, but it's ridiculous fun. - 63
Slant Magazine
Luc Besson's producing career has been so geared toward lean, tough genre films that it's somewhat apt that he'd ape--or, if we're being kind, pay homage to--John Carpenter's preeminent sci-fi actioner Escape from New York with his latest, Lockout. - 63
Chicago Sun-Times
The idea of the president's daughter being held captive isn't blindingly original (it's an alarmingly dangerous occupation), but placing the story on a space station is a masterstroke, since we're about filled up to here with prison movies set on Earth. - 60
Variety
Tackles a nifty futuristic premise with bargain-basement efficiency and a deadpan, devil-may-care attitude. It's an initially invigorating tactic that proves slapdash and unsatisfying over the long haul, reducing a potentially rich sci-fier to the level of a halfway decent time-killer - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
Directors Stephen St. Leger and James Mather fill the film's obvious narrative gaps with enough witty banter and tongue-in-cheek humor for audiences to overlook the subpar special effects used throughout. - 50
Entertainment Weekly
With 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. - 42
IndieWire
Lockout consists of disciplined action pastiche, but much of its thundering engine borrows from better movies.
