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At the screening, in between laughing fits, people around me whispered, in awed tones, "B movie, 1956."

-David DenbyFull Review

It's cliched, ridiculous, and very entertaining.

-J. R. JonesFull Review

The tag-team of filmmakers seems to have only two ideas - having stupendously ugly characters shove their mugs into the camera, or staging action sequences so dizzily you have no idea what's going on.

-Stephen WhittyFull Review

Does a fine job of continually coming up with obstacle after obstacle for our two leads to dodge - not the least of which happens to be good, old-fashioned logic.

-William GossFull Review

"Lockout" is meat-and-potatoes filmmaking at its most basic.

-Michael O'SullivanFull Review

It's the kind of movie where someone tumbling in space above the earth's atmosphere opens a parachute and lands gently on earth without even gasping for a breath.

-Kyle SmithFull Review

It does a splendid job of putting the pale into imitation and draining the life out of derivative.

-Rick GroenFull Review

There's cheap, and then there's this rip-off.

-Rafer GuzmanFull Review

Most of the time "Lockout" is pleasant enough, not something to recommend to a friend, but enjoyable in the moment.

-Mick LaSalleFull Review

Mostly "Lockout" is lost in space.

-Betsy SharkeyFull Review

A putrid film that comes dead-weighted with hammy one-liners and a plot so silly it borders on comedy...

-Scott BowlesFull Review

"Lockout"...is...as dopey an entertainment as imaginable, but it's also a reminder that the film's star, Guy Pearce, has always had great screen magnetism, to which he has now added a bedrock of muscle. Also: he can act.

-Manohla DargisFull Review

If he's poking fun at the genre, Besson has a way to go, thanks to the distractions of a muddled story and silly ending that defies physics and all the laws of nature.

-Linda BarnardFull Review

First-time writer-directors James Mather and Stephen St. Leger have put some thought into all of this - always a bonus in a no-brakes thriller, especially one of Besson's.

-Tom RussoFull Review

"Lockout" never busts out of its cheesy concept.

-Joe NeumaierFull Review

Lockout is genre all the way. The film wears its colors proudly, but it also, alas, wears out its welcome.

-Steven ReaFull Review

The editing by Eamonn Power and Camille Delamarre appears to have been handled while running from one gate to another in an airport somewhere.

-Michael PhillipsFull Review

I kept waiting for Nicolas Cage to show up. Or Katherine Heigl. Or, god forbid, both.

-James BerardinelliFull Review

Pearce gets into his groove swiftly, owns it and remains entertaining. The rest of the movie, however, would work better as a video game.

-Connie OgleFull Review

Too serious to be a parody and too stupid to be a viable action pic, Lockout floats like space junk in the final frontier.

-Lisa SchwarzbaumFull Review

Snow is an overwritten hero who talks like a sitcom character. Every line is a wisecrack, a gag, or what he fondly thinks of as a witticism.

-Roger EbertFull Review

Guy Pearce goes into low-Earth orbit to get his cool back in "Lockout," a silly sci-fi B-picture made fun by his star turn.

-Roger MooreFull Review

Yes, it's cheesy and derivative. But Guy Pearce and Maggie Grace elevate the material, and it never takes itself seriously.

-Richard RoeperFull Review

Movies like this are supposed to be ridiculous on some level. It's part of the fun. But, dang.

-Bill GoodykoontzFull Review

Cavalierly conceived, generically titled and derivatively plotted. It feels like a missed chance because Pearce and Grace came ready to play.

-Jake CoyleFull Review

The committee product of newbie directors James Mather, Stephen St. Leger, and producer Luc Besson, Lockout is, not unexpectedly, a potluck of derivative references.

-Nick PinkertonFull Review

Witty one-liners compensate for cliched plotting and cheesy effects in this sci-fi action thriller.

-Frank ScheckFull Review

Lockout is a largely half-hearted effort in which some of the major set pieces are so indifferently executed that they literally look exactly like sequences out of video games.

-Glenn KennyFull Review

At a certain point, the pic's unpretentious B-movie style, like its generic and uninformative title, seems to indicate a simple lack of ambition.

-Justin ChangFull Review

They don't make 'em like this anymore, except when they do and you remember why they stopped. Daft, but broadly enjoyable if you're in a charitable mood.

-Catherine BrayFull Review


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