Snow (Guy Pearce) is a highly efficient, smartass CIA agent who gets setup during his last operation. Secret Service agent (Peter Stormare) is convinced that he killed a fellow agent and was selling state secrets. Snow’s only ally is another agent, who seems to believe in his innocence. But Snow eventually gets sentenced to 30 years in prison.
Emilie (Maggie Grace) is the president’s daughter on a humanitarian mission, visiting the world’s most secure prison-the first and only prison in space.
It holds the most dangerous criminals, who are kept in a sleeping state. She thinks that this increases aggression and can even cause dementia, but the guards just can’t wait to send her back off after giving her an interview with one of the criminals. But when the interview goes awry and the criminal manages to break out, she finds herself held hostage with the other employees and her one guard.
Of course there is only one guy who is good enough to get her out of there alive, and it is Snow. Not that he is willing to risk his own butt to fight against a prsion full of psychos, bu he accepts it when he learns his partner Mace has been sent there. And hey, it is the only way to get around his own sentence.
From that moment on, Snow uses all his skills to save himself and Emilie, and find Mace- while teaching a her a few thing or two about being tough. And both Snow and Emilie find out that there might be more to the other one that meets the eye…
Unfortunately, the Secret Service just might be more concerned about saving the world from an infiltration of convicts than saving one woman, even though she is the first daughter…
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Lockout is one of the funniest, most entertaining and exciting sci-fi/action movies out there. Actually, a part the prison is the only sci-fi element, but then again, it doesn’t seem that much of a stretch for 2079. And it is not funny because there is comedy, but because Snow delivers hilarious oneliners with perfect timing. And it is fun to see your well-built, effective and attractive agent deliver all the comedy with a straight face.
See Lockout- it is fun action at its best, and was co-written by Luc Besson. Make the action here Guy Pearce and you have a cool movie at your best, without an unneccessary love story attached.
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The King’s Speech starring Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush & Guy Pearce
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