Lockout Reviews

Movie Reviews

• there isn't much else to keep you guessing, except trying to figure out the actors' motives

  by Scott Bowles [USA Today ]

• the movies bearing his imprimatur draw heavily from Asian cinema, graphic novels, and video games

  by Glenn Kenny [MSN Movies ]

• the full house at the screening I attended frequently burst into guffaws at the terrible dialogue

  by Linda Barnard [Toronto Star ]

• the filmmakers' inventiveness with special effects and action, which landed them this job, gives the film a good deal of visual punch

  by Betsy Sharkey [Los Angeles Times ]

• the aftereffects of watching "Lockout" include an inability to focus or to complete a simple declarative sentence without an ill-timed cutaway in the middle

  by Michael Phillips [Chicago Tribune ]

• still proves to be moderately satisfying B-movie cheese

  by Nick Schager [Slant Magazine ]

• pretty much flaunts its simplicity and unoriginality as a badge of honor

  Review rate : C- by Geoff Berkshire [HitFix ]

• it's a great sci-fi concept that seems to promise a one-two punch of sleek visuals and provocative

  by Robert Levin [amNewYork ]

• clearly inspired by John Carpenter's Escape from New Yorkas well as borrowing a significant plot element from its L.A.-set sequel

  by Frank Scheck [Hollywood Reporter ]

• briefly makes this movie more than a solo act

  by Manohla Dargis [New York Times ]

• as is, Lockout's dystopian future of expendable lives comments principally on a dystopian present of expendable entertainment

  by Nick Pinkerton [Village Voice ]

• after watching Lockout, you just thank Guy Pearce for getting the job done

  by James Rocchi [Boxoffice Magazine ]

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