A falsely convicted ex-government agent is offered his freedom if he can rescue the president's daughter from an outer space prison taken over by violent inmates.
29 August 1982, Loznica, Serbia, Yugoslavia
14 May 1977, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
16 May 1965
9 March 1984, Chorley, Lancashire, England, UK
2 April 1976, Belgrade, Serbia
21 August 1985, Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia
5 October 1967, Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
18 September 1972, Eu, France
15 October 1985, Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia
11 October 1965, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
4 October 1946, Paris, France
12 June 1971, Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia
10 September 1970, Banbury, Oxfordshire, England, UK
July 01, 2016
You might find it to be thoroughly clichéd and utterly predictable. But it's not boring. That's largely thanks to Guy Pearce.
April 13, 2012
The tag-team of filmmakers seems to have only two ideas - having stupendously ugly characters shove their mugs into the camera, or staging action sequences so dizzily you have no idea what's going on.
April 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.
April 23, 2012
At the screening, in between laughing fits, people around me whispered, in awed tones, "B movie, 1956."
April 13, 2012
"Lockout" is meat-and-potatoes filmmaking at its most basic.
March 04, 2013
They don't make 'em like this anymore, except when they do and you remember why they stopped. Daft, but broadly enjoyable if you're in a charitable mood.
November 05, 2012
Lean, fun, smart without overthinking things and always equipped with a one-liner, Lockout is refreshingly free of the bull**** that plagues so many genre films.
June 30, 2013
The dialogue between the two leads and Guy Pearce's pleasant performance make this sci-di drama worth seeing.
January 18, 2016
like Escape from L.A. in space
September 27, 2012
Lockout succeeds as a result of Pearce - who delivers an enjoyable, albeit snide, performance as a government agent turned one-man-army.
April 13, 2012
It's clichéd, ridiculous, and very entertaining.
April 13, 2012
It's the kind of movie where someone tumbling in space above the earth's atmosphere opens a parachute and lands gently on earth without even gasping for a breath.
