The president’s daughter is being held hostage in a
maximum security prison located in outer space, and there is only one man good
enough – and cool enough – to rescue her. A guy named Snow. Don’t laugh.
Although it sounds like the plot for a cheesy straight-to-video action movie,
Lockout is actually a highly entertaining sci-fi film with strong production
values, a decent script and a really cool performance from an unlikely action
hero, Guy Pearce. That’s right, the guy who played a drag queen with an ABBA
fetish in Priscilla Queen of the Desert is the star of Lockout and he nails it.
Looking really buff, and looking like he’s as surprised/impressed with his body
as the audience is, Pearce is a reluctant action at best. You get the feeling
that Snow would rather be on the couch watching TV – or at the gym watching TV
— than chasing after bad guys or trying to save the world. But you also know he
needs an audience, not to watch him fight or do cool things, but to say cool
things as he kicks ass or, because he’s such a reluctant hero, gets his ass
kicked first.
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