Lockout

Lockout directed by James Mather and Stephen St. Leger, staring Guy Pearce, Maggie Grace and that one guy who always plays a Russian when the script requires a Russian and he does a really good job. 

This movie is everything as advertised, only a lot funnier than advertised. It's not a great movie at all, but it's highly entertaining and and at an hour and thirty minutes, paced well with no added filler scenes. This is a movie that knows what it is and doesn't try to be something it's not.  Guy Pearce is the best thing in this movie, his devil-may-care attitude, quick one liners and comebacks are flat out funny.  They had me laughing out loud plenty of times as he stayed true to that type of characters throughout the movie, even in scenes where you thought he might break character. When he's not on screen the movie stalls, but I think the director and screenplay writer knew this, so there's not too many scenes where Pearce's character isn't there. 

Basically this movie is a remake of the old John Carpenter movie Escape from New York staring Kurt Russell, so if you've seen that movie you'll know what you're in for in this movie. Lockout is just not R rated as Escape was, it's PG-13 nor is it filled with tension or as gritty as Escape was.  Where as Escape was a low budget nicely paced action/thriller/sci-fi movie, Lockout is medium budget action/sci-fi movie. If you're looking for a good entertaining that's funny and not to long, this is the movie for you.