History Film / Lockout

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 super max 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 the release of all the prisoners from stasis. After some persuasion from his friend agent Harry Shaw, who informs him his accomplice Mace is also there, Snow agrees to rescue her from the station.

* YouHaveFailedMe/YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Alex wants to get into the room where Emilie and Hock are secured inside. He tells one of the prisoners to bring him a prison engineer. "No, two of them." When they show up, Alex shoots one of them, telling the survivor, "I hope this will eliminate the 'It's impossible to get in there' speech."

* HollywoodTactics: The US orders a bunch of space fighters to rush the heavily armed MS1, instead of attacking, they fly around it and get shot up a bunch until they get into some kind of 'final attack' run for one of the fighters to drop a bomb inside the station. Instead of doing something more pragmatic, like simply shooting it down with an ICBM or something.

* GoForTheEye: Big, big squick moment when Snow is instructed, after giving Emilie a shock with a defibrilator, that she only has a few seconds to live unless he gives her an injection to the brain, with a needle through her right eye. The incident is so squicky that even Snow [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it by admitting it made him sick.

* GoForTheEye: Big, big squick moment when Snow is instructed, after giving Emilie a shock with a defibrilator, that she only has a few seconds to live unless he gives her an injection to the brain, with a needle through her right eye. The incident is so squicky that even Snow [[LampshadeHangling lampshades]] it by admitting it made him sick.

* KangarooCourt: Snow being tried in absentia. It's obvious there wasn't really a trial so much as a politically handed down 'virdict' that didn't present any evidence. See IdiotBall above.

* FridgeHorror: Has America in the future become so distopian that you can be sentenced to trumped up charges with no trial, shipped off to super Guantanamo bay [[RecycledInSpace in space]], and then turned into a corporate Guinea pig without anyone so much as lifting a finger?

* TheMillstone: Hydell. If Alex had simply killed him, the bad guys probably could won.

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

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Alex's younger brother Hydell. He is motivated purely by the [[ForTheEvulz desire to destroy]] regardless of how it harms his brothers plans or even his [[StupidEvil own chances of escape]].

* CrazyPrepared: Langral is GenreSavvy enough to get the nessesary paperwork to relive the ''President of the United States'' of his position and brings it with him. Said paperwork requires an ''act of Congress'', meaning that he must have started the procces soon after the takeover.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Poor [[spoiler: Mack.]]

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 the release of all the prisoners from stasis. After some persuasion from his friend agent Harry Shaw, who informs him his accomplice Mack is also there, Snow agrees to rescue her from the station.

* {{Badass}}: It's no surprise Snow is pretty badass.

* FridgeLogic: Why are there ''any'' guns on a cryogenic prison in space? And why are the turrets controled from MS One?

* PointDefenseless: Averted. MS One has a whole lot of turrets, each with a ''pair'' of [[GatlingGood rotary cannon]]. Most of the attackign SpaceFighters are massacred

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Hock. ''Twice''. First he [[spoiler: brings a gun into the criminals side of the interview room. Which basically allows Hydell to escape and release all the other criminals. Yeah whole hostage scenario basically all Hock's fault. Then lets not forget locking Emilie and himself in a nitrogen death trap.]]

* PointDefensless: Averted. MS One has a whole lot of turrets, each with a ''pair'' of [[GatlingGood rotary cannon]]. Most of the attackign SpaceFighters are massacred

* 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 get's shot and held hostage in a prison filled with scum that want nothing better than to rape and or kill her.

* 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. [[Which turns out to be completely true.]] She get's shot and held hostage in a prison filled with scum that want nothing better than to rape and or kill her.

* TheFarmerAndTheViper: Emilie suffers due her desire to see people like Hydell treated fairly. He spends the rest of the movie killing people she knows and going out of his way to do worse to her. Arguably [[spoiler: Alex is a victim of this trope, courtesy of the same person no less. He put up with Hydell when he would have killed anyone else because he was family. Though his death is closer to "TheScorpionAndTheFrog" variant given it effectively dooms them both.]]

* CruelAndUnusalDeath: Poor [[spoiler: Mack.]]

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] when Snow points out that it's fairly easy to be altruistic when your rich and powerful. [[spoiler: Though when it turns out she is willing to make the tough call, Snow accidentally overhears and goes back to save her.]]

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