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
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Noah Berlatsky
The Atlantic
August 28, 2019
This movie is vacuous.
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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
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
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
Graham Young
Birmingham Post
April 26, 2012
Even once it has run its course, Lockout is no knockout.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5
Widgett Walls
Needcoffee.com
April 26, 2012
The only thing this film was missing was the New World Pictures logo to come up at the beginning of it.
Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Common Sense Media
April 25, 2012
The first disappointing movie that concentrates too much on character and not enough on action.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5
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David Denby
New Yorker
April 23, 2012
At the screening, in between laughing fits, people around me whispered, in awed tones, "B movie, 1956."
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Philip French
Observer (UK)
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.
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Linda Cook
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)
April 21, 2012
Loud, longing to be rated R and at times just plain silly, 'Lockdown' left me wanting to see another 'Transporter' flick.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/4
Jolene Mendez
Entertainment Spectrum
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.
Full Review | Original Score: 1/5
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Derek Malcolm
London Evening Standard
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.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5
Susan Granger
SSG Syndicate
April 20, 2012
Furiously forbidding, filled with a great deal of sinister action that makes little sense.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/10
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Emma Dibdin
Little White Lies
April 20, 2012
Shallow, silly yet infectiously good-natured, this is as guiltily pleasurable as dystopia gets.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5
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