One man can make a difference - he can make predictable, half-baked hokum like Lockout almost watchable. English-born Australian actor Guy Pearce bulks up and wedges his tongue firmly in cheek for this brawny, testosterone-fuelled action romp that follows a similar plot to Escape From New York. It's a depressingly dim-witted affair, hung on Pearce's sexist, politically incorrect rebel, whose amusing wise cracks are the only indication that the script was indeed co-written by Luc Besson and directors Stephen St Leger and James Mather, and not churned out by a computer program that amalgamates tired cliches.
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