Lock Up (1989)
Genre: Action / Drama
Duration: 109 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: John Flynn
Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Donald Sutherland and John Amos
IMDb score:
6,4 (47.990)
Releasedate: 4 August 1989
Lock Up plot
"How much can a man take...before he gives back?"
Six months before his release from prison, model inmate Frank Leone is transferred to the highly-guarded detention center Gateway in the middle of the night. The prison director Drumgoole wants to punish Leone in this way, because he escaped from prison to be with his dying father. Drumgoole now misses an opportunity to break Leone physically and mentally.
Actors and actresses
Frank Leone
Warden Drumgoole
Captain Meissner
Dallas
Eclipse
Melissa
Braden
First Base
Manly
Wiley
Reviews & comments
Filmkriebel
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- 9511 messages
- 4409 votes
Solid prison film with Sly himself. Frank Leone has only a moment to grumble but is unexpectedly transferred to another prison for serious criminals where the warden still has a bone to pick with him. You get a lot of action and bullying, and I think that's great in prison movies. The last half hour is a lot of fun. Not a movie where you have to rack your brain in any case. A person can also just have fun with a hard action movie.
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Lovelyboy
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- 3534 messages
- 2616 votes
Oldie who had never actually seen it, at least I suspect so. After all, Stallone has been in jail in more movies, recently and less recently.
The film starts quite abruptly after a trial leave that is rewarded with a transfer upon return. The how and why is unclear, and familiar with the synopsis I thought it was just a strange start until the director reveals himself and gives the simple explanation about something from the past. Revenge! Nothing more and less.
Nice is the image of the sympathetic-looking Stallone who quietly wants to sit out his time and then start a new life. Something that is not granted to him by the vengeful director. The atmosphere and humor surrounding the car restoration is also nice, Sonny Landman stands out as an impressive figure and Stallone is once not dependent on his muscles but on cleverness.
Lock Up's biggest problem is the exaggerated image of sadistic guards versus a group of prisoners who have to arouse sympathy. In addition, the high testosterone muscle Alpha males content is astronomical. Sizemore is actually downright annoying and the denouement with confession on 'the chair'....yes....
Lock Up has entertaining moments and is certainly not very annoying to watch, but it is not quality and it is not to be taken seriously. No, sorry. This could have been more.
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blackwolves
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- 674 messages
- 660 votes
good Stallone without exaggerating too much like Rambo but an ordinary person
nice good action just a good movie the old rascal from the old box who of course has been around for a while and has already played several films is also in this roll as the corrupt director he plays his roll well only i miss the part before he returns to the ended up in prison that he escapes the first time because it seems a bit confused and does not understand why he is suddenly taken to another prison. but i still think the movie is worth it
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