Lockout (2012)

I'm tired enough to start unwrapping (extremely uncoherent) thoughts about a movie. So, I've decided for a short and "fast-writable" subject: "Lockout".

The story is something quite close to Carpenter's "Escape from N.Y." or "Escape from L.A.". A guy (Guy Pearce) named Snow (I wonder if there is an intention for a similarity with Snake played by Kurt Russell in the above "Escapes"), gets sort of framed for the failure of a mission. The context is not very clear but what's essential is that the mission was coordinated by the U.S. secret services. The result of all this = he gets sent to the highest security prison on the planet. Or more exactly on the orbit (the action takes place in space). The problem = at the same time the daughter of the U.S. president visits that location, and the convicts take over the facility. The consequence = Snow gets an option to escape the jail if he manages to do this along the mentioned girl. The offer is accepted, especially since the answer to his trouble is held by another convict he could look for in the process. So, that's the subject of the movie .. or the intro ;) to be exact.

The movie is part of the bunch of "Luc Besson presents ..." - to be read: produced by the guy's studio - Europa (like "Taken", "Taxi", "Transporter", etc). Although in general you don't see too much spent in these productions, the result is still decent in terms of an action movie. In this case though, we clearly have a B-series movie. You can spot this from the first scenes where you have some pretty lame FX. The movie isn't a really bad one, but you have to remember the range where it fits when you watch it. The script is quite predictable and a bit stupid unfortunately, so the range is somewhere close to action movies to see before going to sleep (= B series, light, 0 level of mind provoking). There is though a sort of good part in the script, which starts with what you can see below and continues with other lines of the main character that try to sound witty. Sometimes they succeed. But in the rest of times ...

Rating: 3 out of 5 (at the limit)