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Lockout

Take no prisoners.

2012 · 1h 35m · PG-13 Action, Science Fiction, Thriller
Directed by Stephen St. Leger

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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.

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All reviews
38%
Tomatometer
Rotten

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

David Denby, New Yorker
Fresh

It's cliched, ridiculous, and very entertaining.

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Rotten

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.

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger
Fresh

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.

William Goss, Film.com
Rotten

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

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post

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