Lockout (Unrated) Reviews

They don't make 'em like this anymore, except when they do and you remember why they stopped. Daft, but broadly enjoyable if you're in a charitable mood.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Furiously forbidding, filled with a great deal of sinister action that makes little sense.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10

Shallow, silly yet infectiously good-natured, this is as guiltily pleasurable as dystopia gets.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Even with the bonus of Pearce's sardonic performance Lockout is still little more than a soulless, slapdash computer game.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

The space prison set-pieces get the job done; only in the film's terrestrial bookends does this nuts-and-bolts action film show its rust.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

It rattles along at an appropriately frantic pace. It's just a shame that so much cheese has been allowed into the recipe.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Whether you call it rip-off or homage, Lockout's guilty-pleasure mix of explosive action and tongue-in-cheek humour is mightily enjoyable.

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It's the movie version of Kevin Costner--the great, big dimwit you like anyway.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Just leave your brain in the foyer...

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Shoddy special effects and the surface-level sass of the president's daughter leave this one spinning in low orbit.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

With the exception of Guy Pearce's old school anti-hero Snow, Lockout is a pointless exercise that's bereft of originality in both its plotting and direction.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

First-time directors James Mather and Stephen St Leger ... keep the tension at boiling point with a series of bloody but deftly staged shocks, which help to obscure the occasional incredulities of the plot.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

[It] isn't a good movie but has a speedy slapstick nastiness and thankfully no eye-wateringly unsexy sex (although rape is continually and casually threatened).

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Nothing in this Luc Besson-produced multiplex-filler is at all novel or particularly well-orchestrated, so it's down to an enjoyably sarcastic script to come to its rescue...

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

It's Pearce's film, and he chews and spits the one-liners like a hardened wise-ass. Han Solo would be proud.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Yes, it's a guilty pleasure. And, I really don't think there's anything original about "Lockout." But, Guy Pearce is a very decent action hero and there's plenty happening in this outer space adventure.

Full Review | Original Score: C+

Luc Besson's clunky, space-bound actioner apes '80s B-flick excess but skimps on all the good parts.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

It's just not quite as much fun as it should be, despite Pearce's best efforts and some good chemistry with Grace.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Guy Pierce doing his turn as Bruce Willis in "Die Hard" gives the movie a boost.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10

A ludicrously enjoyable sci-fi thriller salted with some sharp lines caustically delivered by Pearce as a sort of thinking man's Jason Statham.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5