Lockout

June 26, 2012

What it’s about:

A falsely convicted ex-government agent’s one chance at obtaining freedom lies in the dangerous mission of rescuing the president’s daughter from rioting convicts at an outer-space maximum security prison.

What the critics thought:

“It’s the kind of movie where someone tumbling in space above the earth’s atmosphere opens a parachute and lands gently on earth without even gasping for a breath.”
– Kyle Smith, New York Post

“Lockout is derivative and ridiculous and a good time, provided you can turn off higher brain functions along with any other part of you that might want to lodge a complaint about liberal borrowing from better movies.”
– Alison Willmore, Movieline