Lockout Movie Review

A cheesy fun-filled flick that lacks depth but will nevertheless entertain you with its charmful wit and carefree attitude.

 

Lockout Movie Review

Lockout’s plot takes a clichéd form as good looking agent Snow (Guy Pearce) must rescue the president’s daughter (Maggie Grace), who has been kidnapped by inmates at a maximum-security prison in space. Though Lockout is based on a book by Luc Besson (Taxi, The Transporter, Le Femme Nikita, Taken) it can essentially be thought of as Escape from New York in space.

A grace for which Lockout should be thanked is its sense of humour. Lockout isn’t concerned with taking itself too seriously and wastes no time dishing out the one-liners. Whilst Snow’s character could have used more depth, he does at least look the part, having bulked-up, and the witty relationships between Snow and other characters serves to keep the entertainment level on a high.

The action scenes are original and finely produced, with moments such as when Snow tries to escape an air vent with simulated gravity being highly creative and a joy to watch. The freeway chase is also a real pleaser, using a virtual camera to ensure that there are hardly any cutaways at all. Sadly, a lot of the fight choreography has been lost thanks to an unnecessary obsession with handheld filming, but nevertheless the bulk of the action here is sure to delight.

Sadly, Lockout is not without it failings and the biggest of them all comes bitterly in the last ten minutes with an uncomfortable and forced plot twists that has you heading out the cinema with one word in mind: Why?!

Still, Lockout doesn’t need to be a perfect film. It’s cheesy and lacks finesse in its storytelling, but Lockout is still a really fun action film that is worth checking out if you fancy a night at the cinema. You’ll have a laugh and a blast, you just won’t be awe inspired.

 

Lockout Overall : 7 / 10