LOCKOUT (Alliance, 2012) D: James Mather, Stephen St. Leger, w/ Guy Pearce, Maggie Grace. Rating: NN Blu-ray package: none Rating: NN
Lockout’s creators blew their budget on the opening set-piece, which intercuts a brutal interrogation with a high-octane fight and chase, but once the plot kicks in, the action settles down to uninspired B-movie levels leading to a thoroughly disappointing climax.
The plot rips off Escape From New York: only one hard-ass (Guy Pearce) can rescue the president’s daughter (Maggie Grace) from the fortress prison. In this case, the prison is orbiting Earth and the inmates are staging a riot.
Pearce does good comic deadpan, but Grace isn’t playing on the same cartoonish level, so their scenes don’t spark.
EXTRAS English, French audio and subtitles.