{"id":2447,"date":"2012-04-20T13:52:26","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T19:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=2447"},"modified":"2012-04-20T13:52:26","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T19:52:26","slug":"die-hard-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=2447","title":{"rendered":"Die Hard in Space"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe marketing department for this futuristic action flick would dearly love critics to describe it as Die Hard in space. Or, failing that, Escape From New York \u2013 in space.<\/p>\n

Producer Luc Besson has, after all, gone to the trouble of making Guy Pearce\u2019s smart-ass ex-CIA operative Snow so laconic that you can hardly fail to mistake him for a distant relative of John McClane or Snake Plissken. He then traps him in a contained area (experimental space prison MS-One) with a bunch of heavily armed whackjobs (escaped inmates) and a presidential package to rescue (Maggie Grace\u2019s First Daughter).<\/p>\n

So far, so killer B-movie. Unfortunately, there\u2019s also half a dozen half-baked conspiracy sub-plots locked in there with them. By the time executive orders relieve the president of power, you realise it\u2019s not Die Hard in space, it\u2019s 24 in space \u2013 all 24 episodes. And what begins lean and mean bloats into incoherence.<\/p>\n

Still, Dublin-based writing\/directing team James Mather and Stephen St Leger largely make a decent fist of their debut. One highway chase scene looks like it was knocked up with a laptop but, otherwise, the DIY SFX pass muster. And, largely thanks to a sneakily camp Pearce, there\u2019s welcome humour \u2013 even if 50 per cent of the one-liners are more try hard than Die Hard.<\/p>\n

Read more: http:\/\/www.metro.co.uk\/film\/reviews\/896678-lockout-tries-hard-to-be-seen-as-die-hard-in-space-but-crashes-and-burns#ixzz1sc0pReOc
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