Lockout

When logic goes on a trip, preferably off its home planet, and leaves at home a full house of catchphrases, leaden lines, and memories of John Carpenter (and McLane), it's met with a cool cast of villains for whom oral hygiene is a dirty word. You'll forgive it in the end for the fact that it started with the most awful digital chase of the new millennium and that Luc Besson is simply doing drugs because something that dumb wouldn't come to us from the other side of the galaxy. (18/08/2012)

Explosive, uninhibited, breathtaking, indefensible. And all that much more irresistible. Guy Pearce has found his new career challenge and alongside the increasingly beautiful Maggie Grace, he has proven to be a first-class stud. Thanks to the relentless pace of the lines and the killer tempo, Lockout is a blast that locked me in for an hour and a half and in the end spat me back into a world where we'll probably have to wait a few more years for space prisons. Pure action fun in its most positive form. (08/07/2012)

Terrible, horrendous, atrocious, and I could go on adding words to the list to characterize this piece of crap. The movie doesn’t make any sense whatsoever. It has no ambition of being anything other than an average sci-fi B-movie. There’s no way it can surprise you. After reading the description of its “plot”, everyone can get an idea of what utter nonsense it will be, and it ends up being a huge failure. Some of the digital effects were definitely made in 2012, only B.C. Nevertheless, through some sort of an accident, Pearce appears in this movie, and has a great line for any situation, followed by even better lines, so he was a guarantee that I wouldn't go completely nuts during those 90 minutes and I managed to watch the movie till the end. Anyway, Besson should consider changing careers, because this is pathetic. (PS: The movie features the fastest free fall in human history, which would put Baumgartner and Red Bull to shame.) (03/05/2013)

Straightforward and thoroughbred entertainment that looks like it came out of the eighties. Guy Pearce’s dry lines were the best that I’ve heard in a long time and killing convicts becomes funny at the moment when they depart this earth by triggering voice-triggered bombs with an F-word on their tongue. Maggie Grace looks super and overall she is really nice. The villain most deserving a mention is the main nutter, brother of the main capo, played excellently by Joseph Gilgun. The story is a variation on old Carpenter movies, crossed with Die Hard, with an ending that will have your eyes goggling. A laid-back relaxing ride. (28/05/2012)

Don't even try without activating Besson mode or your head will fly off. The rest of it is a loving B-movie with such a lack of self-reflection in any of its components that you'll choke on your fries more than once. How do you get rid of one of the characters the film no longer needs? Umm hmmm so maybe... got it, let's have an orbital station crash into a space prison! And yet this only happens when the viewer is already in complete zen because they've been in a long post-coital rip from arguably the worst digital chase ever, comparable to the rendering of the intros to 90s video games. That's just the way my B-action heart beats. (01/06/2017)