April Anticipation: Lockout

Hello all. Mark here

Lockout (April 20)

Lockout is totally free of pretension (I’m guessing). What you see is what you get (another guess). This will be a ludicrous action film that ups the ante to ridiculous heights (AKA Space Prison).

A bulked up Guy Pearce has to infiltrate a maximum security space prison to rescue the president’s daughter played by Maggie Grace.

What could be better? In a world of overcomplicated plots and realistic good guys it is nice to have a movie featuring total insanity.  Lockout looks like an old school B movie with an A-list actor. The movie is guaranteed fun destruction due to its producer Luc Besson (Professional, Taken, Fifth Element).

I love any film involving a badass loose cannon who has to battle incredibly evil guys. The preview sets up Pearce as a man named Snow who lives life on the edge because the view is great. He has to go to space because of a pesky false espionage conviction looming over him.  The movie boasts an extravagantly long zero gravity fight and wisecracks aplenty.

Audiences should always appreciate action films that only want to entertain. Lockout looks like a film that will make good on every promise the preview makes (I hope).

Watch this movie. Enjoy this movie. Don’t be pretentious and analyze this movie.