Lockout

Guy Pearce certainly has the physique and the witty repartee to anchor a big time space version of Escape from New York. But to make a great action movie, you must have a great villain. A villain who believes HE is the hero of the story. Alan Rickman. Dennis Hopper. Malcolm McDowell. Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct. And Lockout tries its best by casting a couple of crazy Scottish dudes. But they don’t really pack the punch. The effects are fun, the action is taut, but the stakes seem low, lacking the potential urgency triggered by a first-rate movie scoundrel.