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Snow (Lockout)

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Official Site: Open Road Films

Lockout (also known as MS One: Maximum Security) is a 2012 French science fiction action film directed by James Mather and Stephen St. Leger, and written by Mather, Leger, and Luc Besson. The film stars Guy Pearce, Maggie Grace, Vincent Regan, Joseph Gilgun, Lennie James, and Peter Stormare. It was released on April 13, 2012. The film has been met with a mixed reception.

The film opens in 2079. An ex-CIA agent named Snow (Guy Pearce) is held in United States government custody and interrogated about the events that happened before his capture by Scott Langral (Peter Stormare), the Chief of the United States Secret Service. Snow's retelling of the events shows he was forced to kill assailants and flee with a much wanted briefcase, after a secret intelligence exchange meeting goes wrong. He gets in touch with his contact, Mace (Tim Plester) and asks for help in storing the case. After a brief chase Snow manages to make his way to a train station, where he is caught by federal agents, but not before he manages to get the case to Mace, who escapes on the train and hides it in a locker at the station. Mace is soon after apprehended by police officers after unintentionally wounding one.

Langral shows Snow video evidence where it appears Snow shot and killed his friend Frank Armstrong (Miodrag Stevanovic). Snow believes he is being set up and refuses to give up the name and whereabouts of Mace; during further interrogation, however, he discreetly tells Harry Shaw (Lennie James), an intelligence officer whom he trusts, by writing Mace's name in cigarette ash on a table. Later, Snow is informed by Langral that he has been found guilty of both murder and conspiracy to commit espionage against the United States and he is to be sentenced to 30 years of stasis sleep aboard the maximum security orbiting space prison MS:One.

Meanwhile, the president's daughter, Emilie Warnock (Maggie Grace) and her organization are on a ship going to visit MS:One on a humanitarian mission to make sure the prisoner's conditions are decent and to study the effects of the stasis sleep on their sanity. During an interview with a thawed out, disturbed inmate, Hydell (Joseph Gilgun) passes several sexual remarks which aggravates Emilie's bodyguard Hock (Jacky Ido) to the point where he physically assaults him. In the midst of being assaulted, Hydell pickpockets Hock for his weapon and injures Hock, kills the other guard and shoots out the protective window separating Emilie from him, causing an explosion. Emilie runs and hides in a control room while Hydell, now armed, escapes further from his chains and pursues and wounds her. In the control room, he notices the other prisoners in the general population room through the window and orders a technician at gunpoint to unfreeze and release all the prisoners. The prisoners wake; disoriented and violent, they quickly begin assaulting each other and the guards and seize control of the station. An intelligent but psychotic inmate called Alex (Vincent Regan) falls into the role of leader to the inmates when he stops Hydell from harming Emilie and other hostages, saying that once word gets out that the prison is overrun, the hostages are going to be their "poker chips" for bargaining. It is later revealed that Alex and Hydell are brothers.

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