Lockout

When logic goes on a trip, preferably off its home planet, and leaves at home a full house of catchphrases, leaden lines, and memories of John Carpenter (and McLane), it's met with a cool cast of villains for whom oral hygiene is a dirty word. You'll forgive it in the end for the fact that it started with the most awful digital chase of the new millennium and that Luc Besson is simply doing drugs because something that dumb wouldn't come to us from the other side of the galaxy. (17/08/2012)

Guy Pearce surprised me in this movie to the extreme. I knew the movie existed, but I’ve always been annoyed by the reviews which said that the camera is shaky and the whole thing sucks. In the end, I made time to watch the movie. And I have to say that it’s pretty easy to ignore the camera. However, what you can’t ignore is the perfectly written character that was played perfectly by Guy Pearce. The moment I saw his character I remembered the best action roles of the eighties. John McClane and so on. Guy keeps uttering one catchphrase after another, everything pisses him off, everything angers him. The kind of a good guy I grew up with. That’s why this movie made me so excited in the end. Nowadays, you don’t get to see these characters as much. (15/10/2013)

Terribly boring. In the film, Guy Pearce does try to spread love and understanding in the style of John McClane, but the script does not give him enough sharp one-liners or enough straightforward situations. The number of explanatory captions at the beginning should have made someone think about it and rewrite the whole script in a striking 80's variation. Crossing a conspiracy poodle with an action doberman just doesn't work. (28/05/2012)

Explosive, uninhibited, breathtaking, indefensible. And even more irresistible. Guy Pearce has found his new career challenge and alongside the increasingly beautiful Maggie, he has proven to be a first-class stud. Thanks to the relentless pace of lines and the killer tempo, Lockout is a blast that locked me in for an hour and a half and spat me back into the world at the end, where we'll probably have to wait a few more years for space prisons. Pure action fun in its most positive form. (08/07/2012)

Straightforward and thoroughbred entertainment that looks like it came out of the eighties. Guy Pearce’s dry lines were the best that I’ve heard in a long time and killing convicts becomes funny at the moment when they depart this earth by triggering voice-triggered bombs with an F-word on their tongue. Maggie Grace looks super and overall she is really nice. The villain most deserving a mention is the main nutter, brother of the main capo, played excellently by Joseph Gilgun. The story is a variation on old Carpenter movies, crossed with Die Hard, with an ending that will have your eyes goggling. A laid-back relaxing ride. (27/05/2012)

An incredibly cheap and essentially stupid movie, but it's beautiful that the people behind it are aware of it and are having as much fun as the audience, which unbelievably stares at the screen every few minutes. I didn't expect Guy Pearce to be this cool and for Maggie Grace to have such balls. Surprise on all fronts, or in other words, even with a few bucks, you can a pretty decent action that doesn't rely on a dumb script, but rather on the charisma of the main actors and a barrage of arrogant lines. (08/07/2012)

An unsurprising (in 2013, that is) but decently made action flick with a pleasantly cynical and funny main character. That’s it. (22/06/2013)

Don't even try without activating Besson mode or your head will fly off. The rest of it is a loving B-movie with such a lack of self-reflection in any of its components that you'll choke on your fries more than once. How do you get rid of one of the characters the film no longer needs? Umm hmmm so maybe... got it, let's have an orbital station crash into a space prison! And yet this only happens when the viewer is already in complete zen because they've been in a long post-coital rip from arguably the worst digital chase ever, comparable to the rendering of the intros to 90s video games. That's just the way my B-action heart beats. (01/06/2017)

I've only heard bad opinions about "Escape from MS-1," but I have to say that I wasn't that disappointed. What else can you expect from Luc Besson lately? Do you really still think he will come up with something legendary that will knock us out? I believe that he wants to make B-movies and I'm glad that he is making them. I don't expect too much from them, but I quite liked this one. Guy Pearce in the role of a tough guy, which suits him. He delivers lines like Spider-Man at his best swing and he is quite well supported by Maggie Grace, who has become a fairly bearable actress since "Lost." Their confrontation is the best part of the film. However, let me hint at something from the plot. In space, there is a station that is actually a prison, where the most heinous criminals are kept in stasis or a similar state. The president's daughter (Maggie Grace) goes to the station because she wants to change how things are done there. A rebellion breaks out and she becomes a valuable prey. Guy Pearce, who is wrongly accused of murdering his friend, is supposed to be transported to the station as a prisoner. The situation changes, and Pearce becomes the only savior who can get the president's daughter back alive. Expect a bunch of clichés, worn-out motifs, and poor villains. If something didn't work, it's really the villains, because they are as boring as the "Con Air" crew on sedatives. Not very strong ones. There isn't as much action as it might seem at first glance. However, the film flows relatively smoothly, and when you come to terms with the fact that you won't get anything new or a grandiose film, rather an intimate spectacle, it's bearable. I just don't know why it went to the cinemas. Well, Besson knows how to ensure that his films are shown on the big screen. More: http://www.filmovy-denik.cz/2012/08/warrior-x-ms-1-sibir-5x-rychle-zbesile.html (25/02/2013)

Terrible, horrendous, atrocious, and I could go on adding words to the list to characterize this piece of crap. The movie doesn’t make any sense whatsoever. It has no ambition of being anything other than an average sci-fi B-movie. There’s no way it can surprise you. After reading the description of its “plot”, everyone can get an idea of what utter nonsense it will be, and it ends up being a huge failure. Some of the digital effects were definitely made in 2012, only B.C. Nevertheless, through some sort of an accident, Pearce appears in this movie, and has a great line for any situation, followed by even better lines, so he was a guarantee that I wouldn't go completely nuts during those 90 minutes and I managed to watch the movie till the end. Anyway, Besson should consider changing careers, because this is pathetic. (PS: The movie features the fastest free fall in human history, which would put Baumgartner and Red Bull to shame.) (02/05/2013)