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A man looking for the release of a long-time prisoner takes a police officer, his daughter, and a group of strangers hostage.
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75
An uneven but satisfying hostage crisis thriller that is also a perfect example of the type of late-period films martial arts star Jackie Chan has decided to make after entering middle age.
50
Instead of a claustrophobic thriller à la "Die Hard" or "The Raid," Lockdown is a kind of puzzle-box movie, but it hardly seems worth the effort, for the filmmakers or for the audience. Ol’ Jackie needn’t have bothered getting up for this.
50
The engaging plot gets a bit absurd toward the end.
40
Lockdown is mostly a humorless bore until the obligatory bloopers and outtakes in the end credits—and even those are drawing from a flat vein, since there’s so little play in the movie.
25
Slant Magazine
The film's subtitle is apropos, as this is a decidedly locked-down and lead-footed talk-o-rama.
