Lockout

Lockout

Rating 6 out of 10

When I saw the previews and read the reviews on this movie I knew it was a rental.  I was bored and even though I want to see Titanic again I didn't feel like sitting for three plus hours.  I gave it a shot.

If you like action type movies like this I feel if you rent or maybe see this on an early show you will be mildly entertained.  You won't come out of the theater wowed, but you won't feel you have wasted your money either.  I'd lean toward the rental.

One of the trailers I saw for this move touted it as a Die Hard in space or something like that.  The funny part of that is if only Bruce Willis had starred in this movie it probably would have been a blockbuster.  Guy Pearce and Maggie Grace are serviceable yet don't really have the star power or acting chops to make this even above average.

Pearce plays our hero Agent Snow.  Fifty years in the future the worst criminals are being taken to a space station prison where they are kept in a frozen state.  When the Presidents daughter visits (Grace) things go wrong and the inmates thaw out and take over.  Snow has been railroaded for something he didn't do and is told if he goes in and saves the daughter all will be forgiven.

The effect is how a movie like this will be judged.  Sometimes they are good.  Other times the movie looks like a video game.

If you watched the trailer and thought it looked interesting wait a couple months and rent this movie.  I think you'll be okay with it.