Rent Lockout (2012)
3.2 of 5 from 189 ratings
1h 31min
- General info
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- Synopsis:
- Set in the near future, story about a renegade CIA agent (Guy Pearce) who is betrayed by his government and sentenced to 30 years frozen in a cryonic chamber 50 miles above earth. The only way to avoid serving time is a suicide mission - overcome a gang of ruthless prisoners and rescue the President's daughter (Maggie Grace).
- Actors:
- Guy Pearce, Maggie Grace, Peter Stormare, Vincent Regan, Joseph Gilgun, Lennie James, Jacky Ido, Tim Plester, Mark Tankersley, Anne-Solenne Hatte, Peter Hudson, Nick Hardin, Dan Savier, Damijan Oklopdzic, Bojan Peric, Evan Moses II, Greg De Cuir, Thomas Kelly, Daryl Fidelak, Miodrag Stevanovic
- Directors:
- James Mather, Stephen St. Leger
- Producers:
- Marc Libert, Leila Smith, Luc Besson
- Writers:
- Stephen St. Leger, James Mather
- Aka:
- Section 8
- Studio:
- Entertainment In Video
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Thrillers
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- Countries:
- France
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 20/08/2012
- Run Time:
- 95 minutes
- Languages:
- English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.35:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Interviews with the Cast and Crew
- Torsion Field's Sequence
- MS One Action
- MS One Construction
- Unreleased Scenes
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Reviews (1) of Lockout
Entertaining Action SciFi - Lockout review by GI
This is a hi-octane sci-fi action thriller and it's simply great fun. Don't expect anything sincere here it's just a full on, violent special effects film that owes a lot to Escape From New York (1981), indeed the director of that film John Carpenter won a plagiarism case over Lockout, and Die Hard (1988), one of Lockout's taglines was Die Hard in Space! So if you enjoyed those two films you'll enjoy this although it's not as good as either. It's 2079 and Guy Pearce is Snow, a Government agent framed for murder and treason and sentenced to 30 years on the world's maximum security prison MS1, which orbits the Earth. But luckily for him a group of prisoners manage to take over the prison while the President's daughter (Maggie Grace) is visiting and Snow is offered a chance of freedom if he rescues her. He agrees because he has his own reason for infiltrating the prison. Good solid cast including Lennie James, Peter Stormare, Vincent Egan and Joseph Gilgun who is tremendous as a psycho. The action set pieces are good solid fun and the film rattles along at a great pace although the ending is a bit anticlimactic. It was never going to win any awards but who cares when you can enjoy a good action film like this.
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Critic review
Lockout (aka Section 8) review by Alyse Garner - Cinema Paradiso
First time directors James Mather and Stephen Saint Leger get a helping hand from cult French director Luc Besson (Leon, the Fifth Element) in their sci-fi action movie Lockout about a prison in space.
The film’s slightly strange choice of hero, Guy Pearce, finds himself, an ex CIA agent accused of murdering a colleague, sent to an off world prison ship where he is to spend 30 years frozen in a cryogenic state. On the very day that Snow (Pearce) arrives on board the president’s daughter, Emilie (Maggie Grace) visits the compound, only to be kidnapped and held hostage by one of the inmates.
After releasing all the other prisoners, psychotic brotherly duo Hydell and Alex, begin making demands, using Emilie and the prison staff as bargaining chips. Snow, thanks to his CIA training (and unusually bulked up physique for Pearce) is offered a pardon if he can infiltrate the prison, kill the bad guys and rescue the princess – or thereabouts.
From here there’s lots of shooting and fighting and witty quips and one liner's, a reasonable amount of violence and a fairly obvious plot progression all of which culminates in the typically predictable ending.
Whilst some have dared to call Lockout homage to sci-fi predecessors such as John Careener’s Escape from New York, I can’t help but feel that this is giving the film more acclaim than it really deserves. This is not to say it was a bad movie, just that it was, despite it’s French origins, a straight forward, American action film, just set in space, with Guy Pearce instead of Bruce Willis.