Lockout (2012)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2012
	Director: James Mather, Stephen St. Leger
	Actors: Guy Pearce (Memento), Maggie Grace (Taken 1-2), Peter Stormare (Starship Troopers, Jurassik Park: the Lost World)
	Country: F
	Genre: Action, SF
	Conditions of visioning: 23.05.2013, Blu-ray, Home cinema
Synopsis: The daughter of the president of the USA (Grace) becomes trapped in an orbital prison with 500 convicts. A wrongly accused lone ranger (Pearce) will be sent to her rescue.
Review: A typical Luc Besson production with no brains. I read it was bad but wanted to see it anyway for the action. As I read it is indeed a pale copy of John Carpenter's Escape from L.A., from the storyline (isolated prison, daughter of the president...) to the badass hero with a cool name (Snow vs. Snake). The characters are as charicatural as can be. The movie doesn't even try to be scientifically believable: gravity, air breathing, explosions in space... nothing makes sense, which is surprising from the dirctor of The Fifth Element. The special effects are OK but we don't get much time to enjoy them as everything seems to play in fast forward. The few space fights between ships are useless and try to imitate Star Trek, including too many camera flares. What remains then? Guy Pearce's character is finally entertaining as he never stops joking about everything, and Joseph Gilgun plays very well the scary crazy convict.
Rating: 4 /10