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Lockout (2012)

Directed by Stephen St. Leger, James Mather

Action | Science Fiction | Thriller

Most recently watched by CaptainBigTime, sensoria, schofizzy, Javitron, seanCduregger, noahphex

Overview

Set in the near future, Lockout follows a falsely convicted ex-government agent , whose one chance at obtaining freedom lies in the dangerous mission of rescuing the President’s daughter from rioting convicts at an outer space maximum security prison.

Rated PG-13 | Length 95 minutes

Actors

Guy Pearce | Maggie Grace | Vincent Regan | Joseph Gilgun | Lennie James | Peter Stormare | Jacky Ido | Tim Plester | Mark Tankersley | Anne-Solenne Hatte | Peter Hudson | Nick Hardin | Dan Savier | Damijan Oklopdžić | Bojan Perić | Evan Moses II | Greg De Cuir | Thomas Kelly | Daryl Fidelak | Miodrag Stevanović | Charles Robertson | Michael Sopko | Yan Dron | Vanja Lazin | Marko Janjić | Stefan Buzurović | Peter J. Chaffey | Bojana Bregovic | Milorad Kapor | Jason Ryan | Jovan B. Todorović | Milana Milunovic | Patrick Cauderlier

Viewing History (seen 2 times)

Date ViewedDeviceFormatSourceRating
01/24/2020TVBlu-rayLibrary7 stars
04/15/2012Movie ScreenDigitalTheater7 stars
 

Viewing Notes

Was not available streaming so I had to request the Blu from my library InterLoan. Not sure what it was that triggered my desire to view this again since it was a while ago that I made the request but I wouldn’t mind owning this and wish there was 4K of this flick. The Blu is fine but it kinda looks like what DVDs used to look like compared to Blu. Weird to have that impression now.

SPACE JAIL THE MOVIE is not a great movie but it’s certainly an entertaining movie. After viewing this again I’m quite sad that we didn’t get more Marion Snow Ex-CIA Operative flicks starring Guy Pearce. He’s so good as the wise-cracking action hero doing an homage to Schwarzenegger and Die Hard Bruce Willis. I mean, this is Die Hard in Space, right? Oh maybe a little Kurt Russell for this Escape from Space premise. I guess it’s more Escape from NY in space but instead of the President he’s rescuing his daughter.

Some of the FX are dodgy but the action beats are all really fun. Amusing that 30 years into the future we’ll still have the same phones. Haha - I do like that a lot of what is presented doesn’t seem that farfetched for 2049. But then you have Snow on a phone riding that 1-wheel motorcycle.

The only negatives to this are the cheap devices used to get the conflict to happen: stupidity and poor design. The warden states they can’t have any firearms on the prisoner side during the interview yet one of the secret service guys keeps his ankle gun? Riiiiiiiiight. Like they wouldn’t have metal detectors on this state of the art space station prison to check for that shit? And why are the Prez’ daughter body guards on the prisoner side any fucking ways??? Wouldn’t they be the prison guards on that side of the glass and her guards on her side? It makes no sense other than set the conflict in motion. Ugh I hate that shit. Seems like there’s a better way to unfrost a prisoner that makes more sense than that shit.

Pearce is really good and looks like he’s just having a good time in a full on action flick. I like his interview on the disc talking about all the green screen stuff (they show a lot of the BTS stuff and it’s all green screen). Maggie Grace is good, too. I like the “every girl” quality she has. However, those two wigs she’s sporting are terrible.

It’s gonna drive me crazy now trying to figure out why I wanted to see this movie again. (But I’m glad I did - It’s fun!)

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