History Film / Lockout

* SiblingsInCrime: The two inmates who lead the prison riot on the space station are two Irish brothers, Alex and Hydell. [[spoiler:It ends tragically with the AxCrazy Hydell murdering his own brother, who tried to take care of him.]]

* DyeOrDie: Snow forces Emilie to dye her hair black with some disgusting stuff they have at hand, to hide that she's a woman. [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments She is not pleased.]]

''Lockout'' is a 2012 action sci-fi film directed by James Mather and Stephen St. Leger. It was written and produced by Creator/LucBesson. The film is set aboard a super max cryogenic prison stationed in orbit.

After an operation gone wrong, CIA agent Snow (Creator/GuyPearce) finds himself wrongly arrested for the murder of his friend Frank Armstrong (Miodrag Stevanovix) and accused of selling state secrets. Things don't look much better when Secret Service director Scott Langral (Creator/PeterStormare) presents him with evidence he killed Frank as well as claiming he saw him commit the crime with his own eyes. He is eventually threatened with incarceration on the MS One, a Supermax space penitentiary, where prisoners serve their sentence in stasis.

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After an operation gone wrong CIA agent Snow (Creator/GuyPearce) finds himself wrongly arrested for the murder of his friend Frank Armstrong (Miodrag Stevanovix) and accused of selling state secrets. Things don't look much better when Secret Service director Scott Langral (Creator/PeterStormare) presents him with evidence he killed Frank as well as claiming he saw him commit the crime with his own eyes. He is eventually threatened with incarceration on the MS One, a Supermax space penitentiary, where prisoners serve their sentence in stasis.

** Treated rather interestingly when one villain, Hydell, is sex-crazed for the female lead (Emilie), [[spoiler:to the point he ends up stabbing his own brother, Alex, in the chest for a chance to get at her.]] But his brother inverts this trope by being pretty fed up with his obsession and complains "you're shouting about THAT when we have a serious problem!"
** The protagonist, Snow, also uses this trope interestingly. At times he mocks her with his sexuality (such as when she falls face first onto his crotch and he tells her that "you don't have to do that, a simple thank you is enough") but at other times he seems distinctly uninterested in her as a sexual being (such as when he's looking at her leg wound and saying "ew! yuck!" even though it's on her thigh, practically in her crotch).

* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Alex kills one prison engineer (see YouHaveFailedMe below) the second one has a problem getting the door open, so Alex has a third engineer brought up, shoots the second, hands the third the door control the second was trying to activate, and tells him he has two minutes to get the door open. Realizing this isn't enough time, the engineer tells him, "You can shoot me, but I can guarantee I can get the door open in five minutes." Alex is pleased, admitting how he liked that this third engineer knows how to negotiate, and lets the engineer live after he does what he said he would.

** Hydell's scar is mentioned as having been not done by himself but by other prisoners to let everyone know he's a snitch. [[spoiler:Snow later gives Shaw the same mark with his lighter so his new fellow inmates will know what he is as soon as the traitor arrives.]]

* DefiantToTheEnd: Alex captures Emilie and threatens to sic his psychotic rapist brother onto her if she doesn't tell her father (the President of the USA) to call off an attack on the space jail they are in. Defiant to the end, she tells her dad to blow the jail -- including her -- out of the sky.

* {{Expy}}: Even during the trailers people noted how Snow's character had a lot in common with [[Film/EscapeFromNewYork Snake Plissken]].

* LeftYourLifesaverBehind: Inverted. Hock, when he's ''supposed'' to [[spoiler:leave his gun behind. He actually brings it with him, thereby giving the criminal the only possible access to a firearm.]]

* TheMole: [[spoiler: Harry Shaw]]
* MinorInjuryOverreaction: Occurs when Snow is hit in the head by Emilie (a 90-pound untrained girl), he whines and bleeds (and it is the only injury that stays visible through the entire film). Contrast to when he gets punched multiple times in the face by a 200-pound monster of a military man... he simply makes snide comments.
* MiscarriageOfJustice: Snow is convicted in absentia for his "crime". When Snow points out that he has a constitutional right to a fair hearing, he's dismissed as having "waived" that right by shooting a Federal Agent... Despite the whole point of a trial being that someone is innocent until '''proven''' guilty.

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Emilie Warnock goes to MS One to examine the conditions the prisoners are being held in, specifically the effects of stasis causing people's minds to snap. She also notes that the prison seems to be a front for a deep space exploration company who want to test out the effects of stasis for long flights. [[spoiler:Which turns out to be completely true.]] She gets shot and held hostage in a prison filled with scum that want nothing better than to rape and or kill her.
* NoOSHACompliance: Snow, [[spoiler:Emilie and Mace]] go through a doorway into an open airlock separating areas. Only the door which is open has a warning on it, which can't be seen until Snow strikes the button (from the inside) to close the door and open the other one, where we now see the notice (which Snow can't see). "DANGER: High Radiation Area. Protective Suits Must Be Worn." This is the only notice before entering the area and no notice appears anywhere inside the airlock.

* PointDefenseless: Averted. MS One has a whole lot of turrets, each with a ''pair'' of [[GatlingGood rotary cannon]]. Most of the attacking {{Space Fighter}}s are obliterated.

* RetiredBadass: Downplayed, where "retired" CIA operative Snow is helping out a buddy who ends up dead. Snow is framed, and to regain his freedom and clear his name he gets sucked into the movie's main plotline: rescuing the President's daughter. ''However'', Snow takes the job in order to achieve a secondary motive, so it's all just bluster and bullshit.

* TheSociopath: Hydell’s an extraordinarily low functioning case. He’s utterly psychotic and murders everybody he comes across, [[spoiler: even his own brother]], simply because he could, has nothing even resembling impulse control, and possesses a complete lack of empathy or remorse for his victims (potentially justified due to reports of stasis having negative effects on the subjects' mental states, creating the possibility that he wasn't that irrational naturally).
* SlapSlapKiss: The movie has this between (ex)CIA-Agent Snow and Emilie Warnock at the end of the movie. She arrives, they banter, and then when you think they are going to kiss she punches him in the face. He admits that "for a second there I thought you were going to kiss me" at which point she smiles, turns, and walks away. And he follows... and more banter ensues... sexual banter....

* SpaceFriction: MS One starts to have its orbit decay because the technician who's supposed to monitor its altitude is dead... Now, granted, that technically DOES happen to satellites, but it takes decades.
* SpaceIsCold: Great example when, after being reminded of how cold it is out in space, the warden is placed in an airlock and the outer door opened -- his entire body freezes in about one second.

* StopOrIWillShoot: Completely ignored by the police while they chase Snow. In addition to not giving him any warning they seem completely unconcerned about bystander casualties, firing wildly on full auto and even launching ROCKETS at him on a busy freeway.

* SweetPollyOliver: Emilie ends up the only woman in the middle of a space prison riot so Snow must disguise her as a prisoner in the hopes that they can sneak past the others. He does this by rubbing coffee, motor oil and dirty toilet water in [[DyeOrDie her hair]]. The other prisoners still take an interest in her for being a "pretty boy" inmate, forcing Snow and Emilie to fight their way through anyway.
* TeamKiller: Hydell is just as likely to kill fellow henchmen as he is the heroes. [[spoiler: In fact he even kills his brother in the end, despite how this in no way helps him.]]

'''Hydell:''' I was a pickpocket. ''[holds up Hocks back-up gun taken from his ankle holster]''

* RealityEnsues: In the opening sequence, [[spoiler:Snow's SuperWindowJump fails completely.]]

After an operation gone wrong CIA agent Snow finds himself wrongly arrested for the murder of his friend Frank Armstrong and accused of selling state secrets. Things don't look much better when Secret Service director Scott Langral presents him with evidence he killed Frank as well as claiming he saw him commit the crime with his own eyes. He is eventually threatened with incarceration on the MS One, a Supermax space penitentiary, where prisoners serve their sentence in stasis.

However a chance to avoid this fate soon presents itself when the president's daughter Emilie Warnock finds herself a hostage aboard the MS One, when a chain of events lead to prisoner Hydell releasing all the prisoners from stasis after Secret Service Agent Hock violated one of the prison's rules. Hydell's brother Alex, a quite intelligent prisoner, ends up taking over the convict revolt.

After some persuasion from Snow's friend agent Harry Shaw, who informs him his accomplice Mace is also there, Snow agrees to rescue Emilie from the station.