Lockout

If you are one of the critic wannabes that inhabit these reviews then you will probably not like this movie. I watch movies to be entertained not enlightened, edified, transformed, etc. If that is what you seek read a book don't watch a movie. All that being said the character of Snow played by Guy Pearce is one of my favorite characters. He is hilarious. Snow may be the ultimate smart aleck. Makes me wish that at least one more movie with this character had been made, much like I desired to have some prequels made of Arnold's predator team. That was a missed opportunity. At any rate this is a funny and entertaining movie. So don't let all the Siskel and Ebert impersonators dissuade you.

I'm 77 + so what can I say? Plenty!!!! If you want humor, fun(of the absurd) sometimes, These movies are pure joy. Get real people, enjoy.11 It's not real life. Life is what you make of it!! When it gets too tough deal with it. Don't run from it but these movies do help, They are a way to escape for awhile. My advice, (you don't have to take it) take a deep breath and just enjoy them for the pure escapism; then get back to the real world and you'll find you have a better perspective on your problems.0

Ridiculous movie and a complete waste of time. Every part of it is a cliche modeled on other movies that were grade B movies to start with. Hackneyed premise is a prison break that endangers the President's daughter. Wise-cracking hero is sent to save her, they spar through their improbable escape and then wind up walking into the cityscape together. I could almost hear the producer saying, "Geez, this a terrible movie! How can we get our money back out of it? I know, let's put the whole thing in space!" And so they did. Setting a tired script in space does not a sci fi movie make. There are some Star Wars-like fighter jets and sound effects near the end and that's about it. Oh, wait, they also parachute from the Space Station to Earth, in fact, onto a big city highway. That's realism for ya. Things like that insult the intelligence of sci fi aficionados and the movie as a whole insults all action movie fans everywhere.

I enjoyed this film in theaters back when it came out, and I was glad to revisit it again when it popped up on Netflix... HOWEVER, they have a PG13 version with some obvious cuts... I opted to buy the unrated BluRay and it's a much more enjoyable experience... Plus the extras are a nice touch too. As far as the movie itself, it's a fast paced action film in a futuristic prison setting. It doesn't take itself too seriously which is great... And Guy Pearce plays it so sarcastically you gotta love it. Also, fun fact: 2 of the actors in this film are currently reunited on the tv show Fear the Walking Dead.

Did you know it's possible to place a space station at the very edge of the re-entry zone so that all one has to to is jump from that station with a parachute and be home on earth in time for dinner? You have to watch the whole movie to see that part. Before you get to that incredibly hooky climax there is a long bit filled with a lot of stuff. It's entertaining, especially if you get it for free and think of it as a cartoon.

Literally the only reason to see LOCKOUT is to enjoy a loose, fun, devil-may-care performance from the usually more stoic and flat Guy Pearce. He's always been a charismatic, interesting performer, but hasn't really built a reputation for lightness (LA CONFIDENTIAL, MEMENTO). Yet in this predicatible, by-the-numbers film, Pearce manages to stretch himself in surprising ways. This doesn't make the movie particularly worthwhile, not does it elevate Pearce to another level...but it was amusing.Pearce plays Snow, a government secret agent sort in the year 2079. Somehow never fully explained, he's gotten cross-ways with some of his superiors and he's implicated in a murder he didn't commit. He's sentenced to prison on the off-earth penitentiary, where prisoners are put into suspended animation for the duration of their sentences.Just before he's due to be incarcerated, the daughter of the President of the US, who is on a humanitarian visit to the penitentiary, is taken hostage when things go wrong and all 500 prisoners are released at one time. Snow is given the opportunity to save her in exchange for charges against him being dropped. So naturally he takes on this impossible assignment, going up against hordes of hardened criminals. Even though I haven't seen this specific idea in just this way before...very little about the film feels new or surprising.Except Pearce. His Snow is a smart-mouth. Almost everything he says is a smart-aleck comment or a snide insult. There's nothing serious about this man. He's like an action hero stand-up comic. It's not believable for an instant, but it is mildly amusing. Seeing Pearce do it adds a dimension of fun. But make no mistake...this mindlessly violent, uninspired film is not worth seeing.And just in case you think it MIGHT be worth seeing, I should note that there were some special effects in this film, in particular during an opening chase scene that are SO terrible, I was simply floored. There is a motorcycle chase scene that Is no better than a half-rate cut scene in a video game. No exaggeration.Maggie Grace plays the President's daughter competently, but she's generic. All the villains are uninspired, and the "agency leaders" who run the operation from the ground (as it were) are utterly by the book of clichéd screen characters. Thus, my modest expectations for LOCKOUT were not met. Spend your free 90 minutes elsewhere.

Pearce plays Snow as though he's always been Snow: dangerous, capable and hilarious. He is the truly reluctant hero who does it anyway. When he's not in a scene you get anxious to see him appear. The supporting cast is comprised of the usual suspects; you'll recognize several actors who are always bad guys. Maggie Grace as Emilie gives Snow a run for his money and the two together are like a married couple in their third decade of wedded nonbliss. Lockout is not an 'A' movie but it's entertaining. Calling it "Die Hard in a Space Station" is not a bad thing. It's fun and we need that these days.

Having seen a trailer for this on another blu ray I had ordered, it looked decent enough to check out and purchase. I am also a big fan of Guy Pearce. I did order it and was not disappointed at all. It is a cracking thriller, lesser known it seems, but I think that is because it is a French, if English speaking film, produced by Luc Besson. There is a blurb at the bottom of the cover which reads that it is basically Die Hard meets Blade Runner, and for me, that actually does sum it up, but not a bad fusion at all.I will give nothing away about the plot since anyone interested can read that for themselves. The movie has a terrific thumping heartbeat to it and is well paced. As I said before, I am a big fan of Guy Pearce, having seen him long ago in LA Confidential, of course, he has done so much since. I didn't know about this one however and a couple of others which I have recently discovered and there is also Maggie Grace, who is a bit of a rising star with me, ever since Taken. The two of them share great chemistry on screen and it's a fun tit for tat between them. A brilliant opening chase (the film by the way is set in 2079) sets the tone magnificently.Overall, very impressive and the blu ray has some great bonus features too. Highly recommended.

Surprisingly good Sci-fi based around a rescue mission from a high security space prison orbiting the earth where serious offenders are kept in cryostatis. Guy Pearce plays the good-guy-turned-bad-guy-turned-good-again guy in a slightly Die-Hard fashion and has to rescue the president's daughter from the prison after a riot and escape attempt breaks out while she is visiting the space prison on some kind of humanitarian work. That sounds pretty standard but in a slightly different setting the film feels like a lot more than that with its subplots and I think Guy Pearce is probably at his peak here - I think the best I've ever seen him in any role as an actor. Not what I was expecting from him at all, the film is visually strong (other than some mediocre effects here and there) and fast paced with some great hard-hitting action. It often feels tense and claustrophobic and kept me interested through to the end.More violent than I was expecting which worked well for me and suits the film's feel and backdrop - would definitely recommend as a decent action movie with a slightly different take the standard hero/action movie.

Arrived in quick tine. Bought watch for additonal viewing and increase my blu ray collection seen prior to this. The movies follows a wrongly accused comvicted ex goverment agent whos assigned to rescue presidents daughter from rioting prisoners based on a outer space station. Some good guy bad guy stuff action sequences. has a kind of die hard manner but formed in space appeal about it.guy pearce performs okay with his roles.mainly centres around the space station.captures the attention future stuff.

An action/science fiction movie, set in the reasonably near future.A few decades from now, and life on Earth thus doesn't look much different. But orbital space planes are in existence. And there's a big space station orbiting the Earth. Which is being used to keep the worst kind of convicts. In suspended animation.At the same time, CIA operative Snow [Guy Pearce] a laconic and wise cracking individual, is in the middle of a mission that turns into a double cross. He has to fight and run to survive. But doesn't get too far. He faces years in suspended animation on the station as a result.But when Emilie [Maggie Grace] daughter of the US president, goes to the station on a mission to find how the prisoners are being treated, only to be caught up in a mass breakout, Snow has no choice but to agree to take on a solo mission to rescue her.On the station awaiting him are a scottish psychopath [Joseph Gilgun. Rudy in the tv show misfits] and a very cunning sociopath who is calling the shots. But Snow has another reason for being there as well. Can he survive and walk away? And will anyone else?This starts with earthbound sequences that show you what happens when Snow gets double crossed. These are good action set pieces, although the cgi in a motorbike sequence doesn't really convince. Guy Pearce's performance does command the attention from the off as he makes Snow quite a likeable and appealing hero, by delivering lots of good one liners with aplomb.Up on the station Maggie Grace does make Emilie a three dimensional character, neither too tough nor too weak. And Joseph Gilgun's performance -the strong accent he uses does take a slight moment to get used to - is also strong, making him a good villain. As is the sociopath calling the shots.Once Snow is on the mission the pace and the tension do escalate, and it all results in some very good and exciting moments. At the heart of it is the relationship between him and Emilie. The two leads do play this very well, meaning that you never find the man/woman who initially hate each other but get to know and like each other routine at all cliched.There is some clever plotting which holds back a few revelations right to the end.This is exactly what it sets out to be. A fun and exciting action movie. It's very good escapist entertainment and well worth a look if you're in the mood for that kind of thing.Languages and subtitles on the dvd are:Languages: English.Subtitles: English.Extras are:Interviews with cast and crew. These are short featurettes that can be watched individually or all in a row. The interviews are interspersed with shots of the film being made.They are as follows:Guy Pearce [8 Minutes]Maggie Grace [5 minutes]Joseph Gilgun part one [Three minutes]Joseph Gilgun part two [Four minutes]Stephen St. Ledger - one of the two directors [five minutes].Torsion fields sequence shows how one fight scene was flmed. This runs for five minutes. And is narrated in french. With english subtitles.MS one action: runs for four minutes and show how some of the action sequences were done.MS one constuction: runs for seven minutes and shows a lot of the production design.Unreleased scenes: runs for two minutes and has slightly extended versions of two key scenes. The first of these in particular is an esssential watch. You will see why.There are also three trailers in a preview section. For totally unrelated films. That can be watched individually or all in a row.

Lockout is a shameless low-brow, high-octane slice of entertainment with a well-observed B-movie feel. As others have said, it's a latter-day Escape from New York set in space. In the place of Kurt Russell's Snake Pliskin we get one-line quipping, sardonic Guy Pearce in the role of anti-hero, Snow.The opening scene sets the pace nicely with our man Snow getting - ahem - 'interrogated' for a murder he didn't commit, couched in wonderfully stylised series of flashbacks with a quick biog of the key characters. Speaking of stylised, the bike scene (you'll know when you see it) could have been woefully mismanaged but really works well as a Manga-esque futuristic thrill-ride. Quite pointless to the plot but a great scene nonetheless; Luc Besson clearly flexing his artistic muscles.In short, Snow must save the president's daughter who has made a seriously ill-advised trip to a floating space prison filled with the most degenerate, dangerous ne'er-do-wells you could never want to meet. A bit like Manchester, come to think of it.In any event, the plot really can and does take a back seat as Lockout is all about the visual titilation and wanton violence where it succeeds with aplomb; nor does it take itself seriously and pretend to be something it's not. A perfect Friday night in with lots of beer and pizza? Look no further.