Lockout Reviews

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Katie Smith-Wong
Musings of Guitargalchina
December 10, 2019
There's not a lot that can save Lockout from being what it is: 94 minutes of mindless fun.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5
Debbie Lynn Elias
Behind The Lens
November 26, 2019
Lock and load! Don't get locked out of Lockout. And yes....I want my sequel now.
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Noah Berlatsky
The Atlantic
August 28, 2019
This movie is vacuous.
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Patrick Gamble
CineVue
January 8, 2019
An adrenaline fuelled amalgamation of frantic thrill-per-minute action with the claustrophobic tension of a futuristic thriller.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5
Sarah Gopaul
Digital Journal
September 7, 2018
For a night of shameless entertainment and explosions, Lockout is a winning choice.
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Sarah Marrs
Cinesnark
October 23, 2017
I'm not looking for revelatory performances from actors in bad action movies, but I do need to feel like they're participating and not phoning it in.
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Neely Swanson
Easy Reader (California)
September 18, 2017
Overall, the acting is abysmal.
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Mark Jackson
Epoch Times
July 1, 2016
You might find it to be thoroughly clichd and utterly predictable. But it's not boring. That's largely thanks to Guy Pearce.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5
Kevin Carr
Fat Guys at the Movies
January 18, 2016
like Escape from L.A. in space
Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5
John Hanlon
Big Hollywood
June 30, 2013
The dialogue between the two leads and Guy Pearce's pleasant performance make this sci-di drama worth seeing.
Full Review | Original Score: 3.0/5
Catherine Bray
Film4
March 4, 2013
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.
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Rob Humanick
Projection Booth
November 5, 2012
Lean, fun, smart without overthinking things and always equipped with a one-liner, Lockout is refreshingly free of the bull**** that plagues so many genre films.
Original Score: 2.5/4
Ben Kendrick
ScreenRant
September 27, 2012
Lockout succeeds as a result of Pearce - who delivers an enjoyable, albeit snide, performance as a government agent turned one-man-army.
Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5
Kristal Cooper
We Got This Covered
September 15, 2012
While Lockout matches Luc Besson's other film projects in its devotion to being nothing more than a slick, uncomplicated spectacle, the film's ridiculously botched execution and lazy action sequences make it ultimately fall short.
Full Review | Original Score: 5.5/10
James Luxford
The National (UAE)
August 30, 2012
struggles to overcome the many disparate clichs thrown together by the filmmakers.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5
William Bibbiani
CraveOnline
August 22, 2012
[Seems] like the kind of exciting low-concept action schlock that producer Luc Besson could have engineered in his sleep. Maybe he had indigestion that night.
Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/10
R.L. Shaffer
IGN DVD
July 17, 2012
Lockout is a film derivative of several notable genre classics, but the film does offer some entertainment value.
Full Review | Original Score: 6/10
Jeffrey Lyles
Lyles' Movie Files
May 23, 2012
Whenever Guy Pearce's Snow is on screen, the film's a fun, brainless, action flick with a main character that deserves a better movie.
Full Review | Original Score: 6/10
Ed Whitfield
The Ooh Tray
April 30, 2012
What surprises is how much guilty pleasure directors Mather and St.Leger, who sound like islands off the coast of France, rather than filmmakers, wring from Lockout's 95 minutes.
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Jim Lane
Sacramento News & Review
April 27, 2012
... [Guy] Pearce makes it fun.
Original Score: 3/5
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