YMMV / Lockout

• Cliché Storm: Seriously, when was the last time we actually saw the President's daughter or a space prison in a movie, let alone both at the same time?
• Complete Monster: Hydell is a convict on the Space Station cryo-prison who takes charge of the uprising with his brother Alex. In contrast to his more pragmatic brother, Hydell is a bloodthirsty lunatic more interested in killing and causing as much mayhem as possible even when it's clear he's actually hindering his own chances to escape. He makes no distinction between friend or foe either, killing several other prisoners for no real reason. He tries to rape Emilie as soon as the riot starts and becomes obsessed with having her after his brother stops the attempt. When Alex can't find Snow and Emilie after their escape fast enough for his liking, Hydell contacts her through the space station's intercom and starts shooting a hostage every three seconds until she reveals her location, then kills them all anyway after she does. He even kills Alex near the end for a final chance to get at Emilie.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Snow's amusement that the guy beating him up is called Rupert given he's named Marion. The strong implication that this is intentional Hypocritical Humor only makes it funnier.
  • Amusingly, Emilie's father was a LOT more proactive in finding his daughter the last time.
• Special Effect Failure: The entire cycle chase scene is pretty bad, using obvious CG with terrible animation. The scene only serves to get Snow from the apartment to the train station quickly and they obviously wanted to avoid the budget costs of a real chase scene. In the film's defense its relatively modest budget of 20 million is utilized much better in the rest of the film.
• Spiritual Successor: As noted by Good Bad Flicks, this movie may be the closest we'll get to a sequel to Escape from New York and Escape from L.A. John Carpenter agreed, to the extent he sued for plagiarism. Then the court agreed also.
• The Woobie: Mace. He panics when he puts the briefcase away, leaving his card in the machine, causing a cop to innocently call him back. The end result is he accidentally shoots a cop when he drops his gun and it goes off, resulting in him getting shot and arrested. Then he ends up driven loopy by his brief time in stasis and frozen to death because he can't remember how to push a button.

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