Genre:
Action/Science-Fiction/Thriller
Directed by:
James Mather, Stephen St.Leger
Starring:
Guy Pearce, Maggie Grace, Peter Stormare, Tom Hollander
Release date:
Fri 13, Apr 2012
Budget $20 million
Box office
$25,652,960
Lockout (also known as MS One: Maximum Security) is a 2012
French science fiction action film directed by James Mather and Stephen St.
Leger, and written by Mather, St. Leger, and Luc Besson. The film stars Guy
Pearce, Maggie Grace, Vincent Regan, Joseph Gilgun, Lennie James, and Peter
Stormare. Lockout follows Snow (Pearce), a man framed for a crime he did not
commit, who is offered his freedom in exchange for rescuing the President's
daughter Emilie (Grace) from the orbital prison MS One, which has been
overtaken by its inmates, led by Alex (Regan) and the psychotic Hydell
(Gilgun).
Principal photography took place in Belgrade, Serbia. It was
released on April 13, 2012 in North America.
Plot
In 2079, CIA agent Snow (Guy Pearce) is arrested for the
murder of undercover agent Frank Armstrong who had uncovered evidence of an
agent selling state secrets about the space program. Secret Service director
Scott Langral (Peter Stormare) threatens to have Snow incarcerated on the
maximum security space penitentiary MS One where prisoners are kept in stasis
for their sentence. Snow's agent friend Harry Shaw (Lennie James) tries to
locate Snow's contact Mace who knows where Frank's briefcase containing the
secret information is hidden.
Meanwhile, Emilie Warnock, (Maggie Grace) daughter of US
President Warnock, arrives at MS One to investigate claims that stasis might
affect prisoners' minds, leading to psychopathy and dementia. Hydell, a
prisoner, is awakened for questioning, but manages to escape. He releases all
of the prisoners and starts a riot, led by his brother Alex. Emilie and others
are captured. Shaw convinces Langral to send Snow to rescue Emilie rather than
risk her life in a siege. Snow is initially reluctant, but agrees after Shaw
tells him that Mace is on MS One, and could help Snow prove his innocence. Snow
secretly infiltrates MS One. Alex realizes Emilie is the President's daughter
and goes to secure her. Emilie manages to escape with her bodyguard Hock and
hide in a secure room. A problem with the oxygen supply however causes Hock to
commit suicide to give Emilie more time.
Snow breaks into the room and rescues Emilie. Snow changes
Emilie's hair to conceal her gender and appearance after the prison is alerted
to her true identity, allowing them to walk through the prison population. They
find Mace, but the stasis has given him dementia and made him incoherent. Snow
and Emilie bring Mace with them as they attempt to reach the escape pod.
Without the maintenance of the staff, the prison has begun to fall out of its
orbit and crashes into the International Space Station. The collision causes a
breach and Mace is killed. Snow brings Emilie to the pod but discovers it has
only one seat, and that he has been sent there to die. He sends Emilie on her
way, but she allows the pod to launch without her, believing that the remaining
hostages will be otherwise killed. Hydell contacts Emilie and threatens the
hostages unless she reveals her location. When she does so, he kills all of the
hostages.
As Snow and Emilie flee, they discover evidence that the
prisoners were being illegally used as test subjects. Alex finds the pair and
captures Emilie after shooting Snow and leaving him for dead. When Alex learns
that Hydell has killed all of the hostages, he beats Hydell and contacts the
President threatening to allow Hydell and the prison population to rape Emilie
if they are not released. The President refuses to allow a siege and risk
Emilie, causing Langral to temporarily relieve him of his command. Langral
orders the destruction of MS One. Hydell tries to rape Emilie as promised, but
is stopped by Alex. Infuriated he stabs Alex to death. Emilie fights back and
Hydell attempts to stab her, but he is incapacitated by Snow. Snow and Emilie flee
from the prisoners and Hydell. Meanwhile Langral's men plant a bomb on the
prison. Snow and Emilie use space suits and jump from the ship as it detonates,
destroying the prison. The suits allow the pair to re-enter Earth's atmosphere
and land safely in New York City.
Snow is arrested. Emilie later realizes that Mace's
seemingly incoherent rambling was the location of and password needed to access
Frank's briefcase. Armed with the briefcase, Snow meets with Shaw. Shaw
immediately unlocks it to see the evidence, but finds it empty. Snow notes that
he had not given the unlock code to Shaw, and Shaw is revealed as the mole and
arrested. Snow is released and his possessions returned, including a lighter
given to him by Frank before his death. Snow finds a memory card containing the
real secret information hidden within it. Emilie meets Snow and teases him,
having learned his first name is Marion. The pair walk away together.
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References.
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