its a average story in which president,s daughter is been hostage with some few others and a cocky guy is been sent to bring her back from some space jail does,nt interests at all but some good humour and some very good acting performance i consider it a bit average movie but its humour makes it interesting.

"Ow! (INJECTS) That'll freeze the nerves in this spot for 24 hours. You want some on your mouth? "Don't expect a cinematic masterpiece when watching this movie, but expect it to be an entertaining empty-headed action sci-fi with Guy Pearce as a purebred John McClane, in an ultra-modern prison in space, who must save the president's daughter. A clichéd kind of Musketeers story with the slogan "One for all, all for one" replaced by "One against all". A well-known and popular story with the hero fighting against a whole horde of scum, just about 500 murderers and rapists who awoke from an artificial nap, and helping a comely damsel in distress. You can safely call it "Die Hard In Space".The story itself isn't really special and feels rather incoherent. Don't be discouraged by the terrible chase scene at the beginning of the film. That looked terribly outdated and it seemed like it came straight out some kind of C64 game. Some parts are fairly unlikely (including the wind tunnel and the disguise trick of presidential daughter which gave me a "Yeah sure" feeling) and the predictability level is immense high. But besides that, the action-part can be considered very satisfactory and particularly the characters are interesting enough to turn it into an entertaining movie to fill up the evening.Guy "The Rover" Pearce enjoys himself here as the quite burly muscular bundle "Snow", who behaves in a rather fatalistic way and pulls every now and then a dry one-liner or sarcastic remark out of his hat, what provides for some chuckle moments. Once again the comparison with the young Bruce Willis is made quickly. The conversations between him and Maggie Grace (as Emilie Warnock) are highly entertaining at times. But especially the two criminal brothers Alex (Vincent Regan) and Hydell (Joseph Gilgun) steal the show (a kind of "Jekyll and Hyde" interpretation). Two extremely dangerous criminals with Alex as a born leader. But especially Gilgun is brilliant at times as the total crazy Hydell with a heavy English accent. He looks quite terrifying and spoils the plans of his brother over and over again (a stupid decision which Alex makes again and again).Besides the imaginative design of a space prison where dangerous criminals are piled up (literally) to serve their sentence while being in a coma, a whole bunch of hilarious one liners and action scenes filled with crazy prisoners, in the end this is just a third-rate simple action movie with a linear storyline. A film that fits in our consumer society. Consume, digest and forget. My favorite part is the beginning of the film where a punch and a crooked cigarette are the attributes. Once again it immediately reminded me of a similar scene from "The Last Boy Scout". I assume that Bruce has done it all before.More reviews here : http://bit.ly/1KIdQMT

movies are entertainment right? so this is what Lockout is aboutfrom the 1 st min, Snow (Guy Pearce) is punched in the face between lines , unfortunately for him the Cia director Scott Langral(P.Stormare)is convinced he is a traitor, he has seen it with his own eyes ...and want back some secret in a briefcase which are in Snow's friend - Mace's hands.but Snow get some resources as a friend in the Cia , Harry Shaw (Lennie James), who's going to help him a bit30 years in a cryogenic jail pending, the US president's daughter, Emilie( Maggie.Grace) is in trouble in a high security jail MS1, in fact there is a takeover by the convicts.So if you can choose between 30 yrs frozen and save a weak woman in space? Snow choose 30 yrs until Harry told him, Mace is in MS1.there is many funny lines and the alchemy between Snow and Emilie is really great.then i prefer this by far than the boring Escape ^^

This was a good, but somewhat implausible story, and it could have been a good or even great movie except for the unbelievable and unbelievably bad, stiff & wooden acting by Guy Pearce and others. But it wasn't just Guy Pearce's stiff portrayal; the portrayal of the President was lame and unemotional, the Warden was, well, I think you get the picture. Was it the one-liner dialogue that did the movie in, or was it the bad acting that revealed the clichéd dialogue to be what it is, resulting in one-dimensional, stereotypical action-hero-movie portrayals? This movie tries way too hard to be Die Hard in space. The sane convict brother was a more likable guy than the hero, and the only decent acting was done by a few actors including Lennie James (Shaw) and Vincent Regan & Joseph Gilgun, the sane and insane brother convicts who drive the movie. Because the movie was so dismal, their acting ends up shining like diamonds in a coal bin which can only help but further their careers. I'm left wondering which came first, the chicken or the egg? Was it the bad dialogue and script that soured the acting? Or was it the acting that curdled the dialogue? It had to be a combination of both; the end result of which equals a wasted half- hearted effort of a movie.