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title: LOCK UP
year: 1989
cast: Sylvester Stallone, Donald Sutherland, Tom Sizemore
rating:
***1/2
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Somewhere within the corny, bombastic, 80's-style action is the cool little John Flynn-directed prison
flick LOCK UP starring Sylvester Stallone as a furloughed convict with six
months to go — until being suddenly thrust from a nice location to a really nasty
one thanks to villainous warden Donald Sutherland, more befitting an
overboard science-fiction film (like later in THE HUNGER GAMES)...
Sutherland’s cartoonishly vengeful tyrant aside, it’s Stallone (again backed by a Bill Conti score) doing his usual strong silent type and — with the aid of fellow prisoners like a talkative exposition-spouting yet ultimately mischievous Tom Sizemore (an energetic scene-stealer as usual) and gentle-giant Frank McCrae as the head of
the jailhouse auto garage — he has some fun, fixing up a dream car to muscular 70's rock...
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Sylvester Stallone in LOCK UP |
All while befriending a naive, predictably doomed young convict while battling the big Indian from
PREDATOR, FLESHBURN and 48 HRS — enter Sonny Landham as the gray-walled purgatory's formidable token bully...
But what works well eventually sinks to Sutherland’s hammy performance (albeit curbed slightly by ultimately affable chief-guard John Amos) — perhaps the
writer’s partially to blame for comic-book dialog like "This is Hell —
and I’m going to give you the guided tour" while even the dumb stuff — as
Stallone goes through endless mental and physical torture to eventually
confront his enemy — is brutally fun to watch.
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Sylvester Stallone in LOCK UP |
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Sylvester Stallone in LOCK UP |
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Sylvester Stallone in LOCK UP |
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Sylvester Stallone in LOCK UP |
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Sylvester Stallone in LOCK UP with Tom Sizemore
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Sylvester Stallone in LOCK UP |
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Prison furlough wife Darlanne Fluegel in LOCK UP
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Sylvester Stallone and Sonny Landham in LOCK UP |
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Sonny Landham in LOCK UP |
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Tom Sizemore and Sylvester Stallone in LOCK UP |
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Tom Sizemore in LOCK UP |
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Donald Sutherland in LOCK UP |
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JOHN AMOS in LOCK UP |
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Sylvester Stallone and Larry Romano in LOCK UP |
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RIP Tom Sizemore from LOCK UP
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