Lockout

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)