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Lockout

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.

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