Director John Flynn keeps it all in check and creates a believable prison community, but the screenplay insists on cliché and idiocy to get by.
Lock Up (1989)
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Reviews Counted:10
Fresh:2
Rotten:8
Average Rating:4.3/10
Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: A man with six months left to serve in a prison sentence is moved from a minimum security site to a maximum security facility under the sadistic hand of a warden with a personal vendetta against... A man with six months left to serve in a prison sentence is moved from a minimum security site to a maximum security facility under the sadistic hand of a warden with a personal vendetta against him. He must risk it all to stand up to the plot of torture and degradation the warden has created. [More]
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Donald Sutherland, John Amos, Darlanne Fluegel
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Donald Sutherland, John Amos, Darlanne Fluegel, Frank McRae, Sonny Landham
Director: John Flynn
Director: John Flynn
Producer: Charles Gordon, Lawrence Gordon
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Not a bad prison movie until Stallone turns into a one-man army during a really ludicrous climax.
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