Lockout (2012)

Lockout (PG-13) -

 "60 Seconds to Brain Death"

A critical mass of ineptitude (both in front of and behind the camera) cause a Space Prison full of Scottish Psycho prisoners to riot and the authorities have no choice but to send tough guy Mr. Snow (played by Guy Pierce) in to rescue the presidents daughter, which seems almost logical when compared to the rest of this movies plot. The premise however isn't the real bad guy here, the entirety of the editing is. So devoid of any decent action, so cobbled together are the CG racing/flying scenes that they ended up being literally laugh out loudable, and the violence and action so cut down to remove any of said violence or action (to maintain a very wimpy PG13), LockOut really is just an excuse for Pierce to strut around doing his best Snake Plissken impression by snarking one liners at the rest of the woefully inadequate cast. Guy makes a energetic try at salvaging the film, but with an ending (a sky/Space Dive to Earth) so bereft of intelligence/coherence/physics/cinematic know-how that it must be lauded as one of the worst sequences in film history. This movie makes "Escape from L.A." look like The Godfather.

1 Carpenter Rip Offs out of 10 (AWFUL)

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