Lockout (Unrated)

Lockout (Unrated) (2012)

  • 38% of critics liked it
    (123 reviews)

  • 46% of users liked it
    (160,897 ratings)

Starring Guy Pearce and Maggie Grace and set in the near future, Lockout follows a falsely convicted ex-government agent (Pearce), whose one chance at obtaining freedom lies in the dangerous mission of rescuing the President's daughter (Grace) from rioting convicts at an outer space… More

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Apr 13, 2012 Wide
FilmDistrict

Critic Reviews

  • David Denby, New Yorker

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

  • J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader

    It's clichéd, ridiculous, and very entertaining.

  • Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger

    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.

  • William Goss, Film.com

    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.

  • Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post

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

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Anthony L


    Putting aside some truly shocking special effects, Lockout is a perfectly acceptable action film. I quite liked it in fact, the initial interviewing scene was really well done and even though the story was familiar, I liked what they did, and the characters/performances were all good.… More

  • Directors C


    [img]http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/user/icons/icon13.gif[/img] Over the years in which they've been churned out i've grown a weird fondness towards Luc Besson's exploitation B-Movie production stable. Though they have always prefered to carry plots free of… More

  • Dean !


    A half decent almost comic book action film, with a slight feel of Escape from New York about it. Plenty of action to keep you entertained with a decent cast to, Joseph Gilgun has come a long way since Emmerdale! A bit cheesy but you know what to expect from this and it delivers.

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    "This is one of those films where you can just shut your mind off and watch it in a numb state with drool running down your chin. It's not exciting or thrilling. It tries for some humor, but it ends up trying to hard which ends up being cheesy. I'm not sure if I've… More

  • Al S


    An instant classic. It`s Escape From New York in space, a film with lots of ideas and great homages to other pictures. A spectacular and pulse-pounding great-time at the movies. It`s slick, wickedly funny and loaded with eye-popping action. A non-stop, action-packed adrenaline-rush… More

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