This movie is vacuous.

| Aug 28, 2019

At the screening, in between laughing fits, people around me whispered, in awed tones, "B movie, 1956."

| Apr 23, 2012

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 21, 2012

It's laughably over the top but Pearce, a decent actor, anchors it somewhere between Escape From New York and The Transformers.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 20, 2012

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

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 20, 2012

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.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 20, 2012

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

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 20, 2012

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

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 19, 2012

[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).

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 19, 2012

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...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 19, 2012

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

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 19, 2012

Seriously, this picture is a mess. What's worse is that given the simplistic straight-forward nature of the premise it by all rights shouldn't be.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 14, 2012

| Original Score: C- | Apr 14, 2012

It's clichd, ridiculous, and very entertaining.

| Apr 13, 2012

The idea of an Escape From New Yorkin space with the underrated Guy Pearce in the Snake Plissken role seemed like a slam dunk. How do you screw that up? Watch Lockout and find out.

| Original Score: 1.0/5.0 | Apr 13, 2012

Lockout is derivative and ridiculous and a good time, provided you can turn off higher brain functions along with any other part of you that might want to lodge a complaint about liberal borrowing from better movies.

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Apr 13, 2012

Does a fine job of continually coming up with obstacle after obstacle for our two leads to dodge - not the least of which happens to be good, old-fashioned logic.

| Apr 13, 2012

If nothing else it's a strong argument for Pearce to take on more charismatic leading roles-- he comes so close to rescuing Lockout that who knows what he might do in an actual good movie.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 13, 2012

This is one astonishingly insipid film, a crude, unimaginative piece of ugly claptrap, consisting entirely of spare parts assembled with a minimum of style or enjoyment.

| Apr 13, 2012

"Lockout" is meat-and-potatoes filmmaking at its most basic.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 13, 2012