The movie follows a plot similar to "Escape from New York City," but other than Guy Pearce as Snow, it lacks memorable characters. In 2079, Guy is convicted of murder and espionage. In order to beat the rap he must rescue the President's daughter from an orbiting space prison...apparently built after a crazy ideas man gets elected president. I started making a list of the science flaws and quit after half a page. My other column for absurdities was equally as long. Clearly this is a "leave your brain at the door" movie.Guy is a wise cracking individual. His humor is enjoyable, even if corny at times. Of course the President's daughter (Maggie Grace) objects to being the only hostage being rescued. Good comedy-action sci-fi story.F-bomb, no sex, no nudity.

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.

"Lockout" stars Guy Pearce as a generic tough guy who breaks into an orbital prison and rescues the daughter of the President of the United States. Another in a long line of disposable action movies produced by Luc Besson, the film was directed by James Mather and Stephen Saint Leger.Despite a funny performance by a wisecracking Guy Pearce, "Lockout" is mostly comprised of clichés. Transplanting the plots of "Escape from New York" and "Die Hard" to a space-station, the films is marred by unnecessary flashbacks, needlessly convoluted sub-plots and bad CGI. Maggie Gracce co-stars as thankless eye candy.5/10 – Worth one viewing.

For Guy Pearce fans, this is walk in the park.. I know there is no inch of Sci-Fi marvel in this flick..but there is enough chemistry between Guy and Maggie to melt even the sun..;-) in a love-hate way. I loved this movie and watched it many times just for Guy's dialogs.. its not all that bad.. i would rate a sane 7 for this.The premise is good, somehow the space setup is a big let-down just for the fact that it doesn't showcase any iota of space action scenes.. or the thrills.. pencil thin storyline makes it more weak. Few of the side actors are wasted and opening scenes are hurriedly done. Space prisoner histrionics is a waste of time.. they should have thrown some alien mix..:-)