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.
At the screening, in between laughing fits, people around me whispered, in awed tones, "B movie, 1956."
– David Denby,
New Yorker,
23 Apr 2012
fresh:
It's cliched, ridiculous, and very entertaining.
– J. R. Jones,
Chicago Reader,
13 Apr 2012
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,
13 Apr 2012
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,
13 Apr 2012
rotten:
"Lockout" is meat-and-potatoes filmmaking at its most basic.