Great one liners from Guy Pierce and a great campy feel, even though I think this is supposed to be a serious sci-fi. I am just going to pretend they were trying to be campy, because nothing made much sense at all. "Who was this mystery man on the phone? Uh, his name was Fuck You. Really? Yeah, he was asian."

Guy Pearce and Lennie James save what they can out of this subpar PG-13 action romp in space. While Mather and St. Leger have a great grasp on their characters and world, their story plods along and never really goes anywhere interesting. Lockout further proves Luc Besson needs to come out of self-induced Arthur-and-the-Invisibles-retirement and go back to directing some badass action flicks, as much of Lockouts problems come from its two uninspired directors.

I would have adored this in preschool.

Kind of blah. Pearce's performance is entertaining, but the movie's neutered to the point of high annoyance, and it's sort of ugly to look at, to boot. Basically, it's the kind of redundant, through-the-motions, cluttered sci-fi actioner that shoulda gone straight to DVD and starred Dolph frigging Lundgren or somebody.

"Who cares about subpar computer-generated work when Guy Pearce is a one-man cartoon badass spectacle all to himself?" - Nick Schager

I like sci-fi. I like action. I like movies that are entertaining. I like movies that take place in a dystopian future. I like tough guy protagonists and smart female leads. I like intelligent and scary bad guys. If you, too, like any of those things, don't watch this shit unless you want to be sorely disappointed and have time and brain cells to kill.

Simple mindless drivel with it's only redeeming feature being Guy Pierce not in Jackass make-up.

Awful acting

Hilarious good space bad guy ass-kicking. Most enjoyable.

While it's not terrible, Lockout is a appointment for sci/fi films. Pearce really works in a role like this. Aside from that, its cool to look at and I liked it even though it's a little over the top.

Would be totally worthless without Guy Pearce and his jokes. Awful cgi, stupid plot.

Virtually every line Pearce utters contains a lame wisecrack. Is 'Lockout' a particularly good film? I suppose not. Did it entertain me and make me nostalgic for the less serious action flicks of the 90s? Sure did.

Not too bad, not too bad at all. Sure, nothing of it makes sense. But who gives a damn if you have Guy Pearce portraying the douchiest/ most awesome protagonist, ever.

Quite possibly the worst thing I've seen that was a theater release. Beyond nonsensical, yet somehow still predictably pedestrian. Everything about it screams mediocre. If you love Guy Pearce, just re-watch Ravenous, it's a much better "genre flick"

Apparently Luc Besson's "original" idea involved combining every action movie ever made into one. For that reason I'm going to call this one "Live Free or Escape from Air Force Alien3".

one of the worst turds in cinema history.

Saved by the great Guy Pearce and his never-ending one liners and Maggie Grace still looks cute.

Enjoyable, but in a 'oh god, thats so bad' sort of way. The dialogue is dumb and the CG effects are some of the worst I've ever seen. But, it is a great idea, held together by Guy Pearce - if it weren't for him, this film would be unwatchable - also the guy from Emmerdale playing psycho Hydell, his best role ever.

Pretty stupid sci-fi action. The plot was terrible, Pierce was alright, Maggie Grace's only talent for acting is when she's hyperventilating, and throughout all that it was watchable and entertaining.

I love a good Sci-fi flick but this wasn't it! Big fan of Guy Pearce as well but this was very dissapointing. Special effect was really bad! Story below avrage! Almost turned it off! The fall from space at the end was hilarious! That has to be one of the most ridiculous scenes ever made :D

THIS MOVIE

In a time when most 80s action heroes either are or should be retired, it's down to one Australian character actor to pick up the rein and ham it up to 11. Sure, the plot is asinine and for some reason the leftover lens-flare from Abrams' Star Trek has found its way to every poorly rendered effects shots here, BUT Pearce is an absolute joy every time he opens his mouth.

Apart from Guy Pearce and Joseph Gilgun (Rudy from series 3 of Misfits and This is England) who looked like they had fun with their roles, everything else was really quite bad.

The whole movie's really fuckin' cheap and retarded. Cool performances, though. Well, some. Mainly the two leads. Made it kinda bearable. So...can't really hate it.

Cheesy but fun

Okay, this was actually kind of fun. The cast is pretty good - Guy Pearce turns in an especially charismatic performance - and it was a silly, enjoyable piece of action fluff. Unfortunately, it also looks really cheap and there's not an original idea in the entire movie, but if you've got a beer and bowl of popcorn handy, you could do worse.

Mediocre scifi flick. Guy Pearce is entertaining enough but the others are all on auto pilot as is the film. Don't waste your money and catch it on tv.

I don't understand - why did the U.S. government spend hundreds of billions of dollars building a space station prison instead of just using one on earth? Why can one prisoner getting ahold of one pistol with one clip take over the whole prison? Why does the space station threaten to crash into earth for no apparent reason? NONE OF THIS MOVIE MAKES SENSE! Still, Guy Pearce's one-liners are hilarious.

terribly average "space prison" sci-fi... at least change the prisoner outfit from orange to some other color... and that "space motorcycle" chase??!

Dumb, dumb, dumb as hell, but it's not unwatchable; Guy Pearce is fun enough

So bland. Except a space prison.

Everything the new Die Hard movie was supposed to be. Guy Pearce gave it his all as Hugh Jackman.

I like Pearce and I believe him in this roll. The idea is just kind of stupid, why space? I like how it said "original story by Luc Besson." If you ignore John Carpenter maybe... but anyway, it just kind plodded along. It actually started off pretty promising but the action wasn't exciting and no characters were memorable. Escape from Space doesn't work.

The movie wasn't bad. The CGI in the first 10 minutes was horrible.

It genuinely is like Die Hard in space! Guy Pearce is a revelation as the buff, fast-tongued super-cop tasked with saving the President’s daughter from a bunch of released convicts on a floating prison. Joseph Gilgun (Woody from This is England) turns in a truly terrifying performsnce as one of the deranged cons. [Full Review]

1013: great idea!

The script's full of cliches and bad dialogue, and the CGI at the beginning of the movie is painfully bad. That said, Guy Pearce is freakin' awesome and a lot of fun to watch.

This is more my kind of action film - something a bit different, doesn't take itself too seriously, some entertaining baddies and a nice little twist at the end. Certainly not a classic, but an entertaining 90 minutes.

Surprisingly fun chaotic and formulaic action/sci-fi film. Despite the appalling CGI and effects scenes and a silly premise, the film comes to life through the writing of Guy Pearce's character, and his supremely wise-cracking comic book hero performance. His chemistry with Maggie Grace is good, and the script has plenty of humour to disarm the slightly nonsensical plot details and generic one-against-hundreds chases and set pieces. No classic, but more memorable than the myriad action clunkers.

Plotholes, goofs and logic flaws on a minute-basis. The performance by Peter Hudson was one of the worst I've ever seen (in spite of the few sentences he had).

The plot makes no sense, the dialogue is awful, the effects are piss poor, and the only thing that makes this movie even remotely watchable is when one of Guy Pierce's one-liners happens to stick. He throws so many out there that it's impossible a few won't make you laugh.

guy pearce pulls this one out of a mediocre abyss with one of the most bad assiest characters ever, the comic one-liners and persistent sarcasm make me almost forget the frequent plot holes and laughable cg.