The idea of a prison in space named MS: ONE was
meant to be a good idea. Hey, it was written by Luc Besson, who was the
principal author of Taken and its sequel Taken 2 (both starred Liam Neeson), so
you’d expect a masterpiece in the making. But nope. We were given a loose-ended
movie, with a script that lacked innovation, a never-ending mayhem, and a bunch
of prisoners with no idea of what is important.
Set in the near future, Lockout stars Guy
Pearce, who plays Snow, a military operative wrongly accused of killing a
high-ranking official and awaiting a prison sentence.
Emily (Maggie Grace) was visiting MS: ONE to confirm whether long-term stasis
has neurological effects on the prisoners.
While she was there, the prisoners managed to
break free from their warden and the officers, taking over the space prison
with the president’s daughter still on board.
The movie took a turn for the worse when that
happened. The prisoners either had no idea what to do or were just dumb. This
is the writers' fault, as they put together a movie with a rescue mission and
a bunch of prisoners who asked for nothing but ran around killing and getting
killed.
The CGI and action sequences were good, if I
may add, but that was not enough to save the movie, meaning they did not matter at all.
Although the movie is a useless waste of cinema time, the actors and extras were really into it. They probably thought they were in another movie, because all I saw was great acting by the entire cast but a bad script.
Guy Pearce was tactful in his presentation of
the protagonist. The movie had all the old tricks packaged into one: I punch
the good guy a million times and he remains standing. I punch the bad guy once
and he’s out cold.
All in all, this movie was meant to be a
direct-to-DVD release, but the producers just wanted to waste our poor cinema
time.
all i can do is LOOOOOL!!!
ReplyDeletetanx fr d follow tho!
My pleasure but seun loved it though
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