Lockout Reviews
December 10, 2019
There's not a lot that can save Lockout from being what it is: 94 minutes of mindless fun.
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| Original Score: 2/5
August 28, 2019
This movie is vacuous.
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.
September 18, 2017
Overall, the acting is abysmal.
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.
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| Original Score: 3/5
January 18, 2016
like Escape from L.A. in space
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
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.
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| Original Score: 5.5/10
August 30, 2012
struggles to overcome the many disparate clichs thrown together by the filmmakers.
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| Original Score: 2/5
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.
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| Original Score: 4.5/10
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.
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| Original Score: 6/10
April 26, 2012
Even once it has run its course, Lockout is no knockout.
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| Original Score: 2/5
April 26, 2012
The only thing this film was missing was the New World Pictures logo to come up at the beginning of it.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
April 25, 2012
The first disappointing movie that concentrates too much on character and not enough on action.
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| Original Score: 2/5
April 23, 2012
At the screening, in between laughing fits, people around me whispered, in awed tones, "B movie, 1956."
April 22, 2012
The most interesting feature of Besson's film is that the outer-space jailbirds are led by a Scot with a striking resemblance to George Galloway.
April 21, 2012
Loud, longing to be rated R and at times just plain silly, 'Lockdown' left me wanting to see another 'Transporter' flick.
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| Original Score: 2/4
April 20, 2012
"Lockout" has a very minute amount of cheesy comedy that will have you laughing at it, but maybe that is the point.
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| Original Score: 1/5
April 20, 2012
It's laughably over the top but Pearce, a decent actor, anchors it somewhere between Escape From New York and The Transformers.
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| Original Score: 2/5
April 20, 2012
Furiously forbidding, filled with a great deal of sinister action that makes little sense.
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| Original Score: 4/10
April 20, 2012
Shallow, silly yet infectiously good-natured, this is as guiltily pleasurable as dystopia gets.
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| Original Score: 2/5