If you loved Aliens, Battlestar Galactica, Blade Runner, Die Hard, Mission Impossible, Pulp Fiction, Robocop, Speed, and Star Wars, chances are that the fairly inappropriately PG-13 rated Lockout might also interest you. It’s a piecemeal work of all of the above. The chances are, also, that you might therefore find it to be thoroughly clichéd and utterly predictable. But it’s not boring. That’s largely thanks to Guy Pearce.
The year is 2079. Pearce plays buff, tough, terminally wisecracking CIA agent Snow, who gets bogusly framed for alleged espionage against the U.S. He’s headed out to serve a 30-year sentence in a cryogenic deep-freeze pod on a satellite-like maximum-security prison in outer space, called MS ONE.
The president of the United States’ daughter (Maggie Grace), visiting MS ONE to determine the state of its humaneness, is taken hostage in a prison riot. The inmates have requests and conditions or they'll forcibly eject a hostage out of the airlock every 3 minutes. Oops.
