Review of Lockout (2012) by Todd S — 28 Jun 2016

Lockout (2012).

Often compared with Escape from L.A. (1996), this Science Fiction actioner has a more modern slant on it than the John Carpenter version. Luc Besson did a great job of the dialog and interjected humor.

Snow (Guy Pearce) is an irreverent ex-CIA operative (Much more fun that Snake Plissken) who is accused of treason. His old handler, Harry Shaw (Lennie James) manages to get him assigned to rescue the President's daughter, Emilie Warnock (Maggie Grace) from an orbiting space station penitentiary that has been taken over by the convicts, led by Alex (Vincent Regan) and his psychotic brother Hydell (Joseph Gilgun).

Despite the objections of the CIA head, Scott Langral (Peter Stormare), Snow breaks into a hidden entrance of the space station and has to deal with crazy convicts and an uncooperative damsel in distress without her hostage friends.