Henry Barnes 

Lockout – review

Guy Pearce's space penitentiary-bound secret agent is the only one having fun in this shoddy sci-fi thriller, says Henry Barnes
  
  

Lockout
Piss and vinegar … Lockout. Photograph: AP Photograph: AP

It's 2079. Tough secret-service agent Guy Pearce sloshes piss and vinegar as he rockets up to MS One, an outer-space penal colony where the president's daughter is being held captive by escaped inmates. They're led by one head hulk and his younger brother – a tattooed intergalactic Begbie partial to presidential offspring and bouts of mindless violence. Pearce has fun; world-weary in the style of a 15-year-old told one too many times to tidy his room – but shoddy special effects and the surface-level sass of the president's daughter leave this one spinning in low orbit.

 

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