Lockout Review

Quick Summary - In 2070 the president's daughter is visiting a brand new space station prison when the prisoners riot and take over the station, taking her and a number of the crew hostage. The president decides to send in a single man to infiltrate, break her out, and get her to the escape pod (yes, there's an escape pod).

Quick Review - Definitely enjoyable*

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1592525/

This movie probably could have been terrible if they had even tried to take themselves seriously. Almost immediately though they do away with the premise that any of this would be not-ridiculous. What's left is an enjoyable action/comedy with some Shoot 'em up style sci-fi shenanigans.

Aside from that I'm not sure how to review this movie since the plot does not merit re-mentioning, there's nothing deep enough to analyze for more than about 5 seconds, and the only parts that are even worth complaining about all include spoilers. So instead I will just give a list of what made this movie awesome:

• A speeder-bike/futuristic-hovercraft-helicopter type thing chase with lots of explosions.
• Voice activated mines (when you catch one don't say "Oh Shit")
• Thinking you escaped into an impregnable holding cell only to find it is slowly filling with nitrogen that will kill you
• Finding out that the impregnable holding cell can be impregnated from both the front and the rear without too much effort
• The two Irish brother villains, one conniving, one insane
• A high orbit space battle between a heavily armed space station with automatic defense turrets and a bunch of military fighter ships
• Maggie Grace (who's both hot and apparently good at getting kidnapped)
• Airlock executions (which never get old)
• The president gets removed from office by the head of the secret service
• The prison literally crashes into the international space station out of nowhere
• Guy Pearce being an asshole all movie
• Zombie-like hordes of prisoners chasing people around the station and getting thwarted by blast doors which conveniently open/close at only the right times
• Witty dialogue all movie long (its kind of what made the movie)

So I enjoyed it. And you might too.

*Disclaimer: I tend to enjoy some terrible movies**.
**Re-disclaimer: I also tend to enjoy awesome movies. Like GI Joe.