Lockout [Review]
Last night I went to see “Lockout” not knowing exactly what to expect. I knew it took place in the future, on a spaceship and involved a prison break of sorts. I knew that the stars are Guy Pearce and Maggie Grace, two very good looking people, and that Luc Bresson was involved in the film.
What you get is an intense hour and a half mash up of a thousand action movie and video game references and cliches complete with a ruggedly handsome wisecracking anti-hero, insane prisoner-villains, the president’s daughter (really!) and a space battle sequence reminiscent of the rebels taking down the Death star.
Lockout was hilarious. I’m not entirely sure if that was the intention but the audience seemed to love the corny one-liners and the theater burst out laughing on a number of occasions, usually at a ridiculous plot contrivance designed to keep the story moving and getting the characters from one insane scene to the next.
Watch if you dig: ridiculous action movies, John McClean, “Die Hard”, “Taken”, over-the-top villains, handsome guys, Guy Pearce, anything that takes place in space, Nathan Drake (so I’m told), explosions, explosions in outer-space
Avoid if you can’t stand: really awful special effects, extended action sequences, shaky-cam, whiny indecisive female “characters” (a.k.a whatever the movie needs her to be at the moment and there for the hero at the end), watching people play video games
My Verdict: I had a really great time watching the movie. I don’t know if it’s worth the steep price of admission of movies these days, but not a bad choice for a cheap Tuesday movie or a fun popcorn movie at home once it’s on DVD/Blu-Ray.
