The domestic trailer has debuted for the sci-fi prison break film Lockout. The first half of the trailer is pretty rote, with lines like “He’s the best there is, but he’s a loose cannon.” It picks up when Guy Pearce appears, but altogether the tone here is wildly different from the international trailers we’ve seen previously. The action looks great, but Pearce’s charisma is almost entirely absent here. It’s a shame, because the movie actually looks really, really good in the other trailers. It’s cool and strange, and Pearce is hilarious as a wisecracking badass. Hopefully we’ll get a differently cut trailer soon, but for now US audiences will have to settle for this generic actioner.
Hit the jump to watch the trailer. Produced by Luc Besson, the film stars Pearce, Maggie Grace, and Peter Stormare. Lockout opens April 20th.
Trailer courtesy of IGN:
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Yeah who ever cut this trailer has no feel for shaping humor or suspense. It’s basically just, “hey lets throw all of the major set pieces at the audience with tense music. Hopefully something will stick.”
This trailer gave me a seizure. Guy Pearce could be so much better… if he’d get a better agent. I for one think he delivers some of the greatest accents around… but not some of the greatest films.
Pliskin, out.
Still, seems to be a a good sci-fi. Not like Star Wars or Star Trek or Alien movies or, even, Prometheus, but, looks nice anyway.
It’s Fortress meets Con Air. How could it not be spectacular?
… or ‘Escape From New York’ in space, but it looks like so much fun, not to mention visually impressive, so who cares…!?
Guy pearce has picked this movie for the same reason he picked memento.But it would ve been really badass if we had pearce playing a plumber in the movie, that would ve been something!