"Lockout" has accrued a 31% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, indicating its a really, really rotten movie, but this one critic out of the few that did give this movie a fresh tomato briefly mentions a really interesting idea, whether or not the amount of money the movie makes is the best determinate of whether or not it is good. Nick Rogers's ending line in his review is this, "In the end, this is pass-fail territory — no more, no less. Consider “Lockout” a success by way of social promotion." Typically critics unanimously will say that this is bull. Things that are truly god awful can still make money, and have tons of views for one reason. Promotion. But the masses cannot be denied from having a say either, and this movie did not get black listed enough to go straight to dvd.
I wanted and maybe still even do want to go see "Lockout" just because it looks like a good time. Sure it hasn't swept the box office off its feet, but it has made a modest (if that's what you can call it) $6.2 million which isn't even a third of what "The Hunger Games." Here is the review on "Lockout" from Nick Rogers on The Film Yap website.
http://www.thefilmyap.com/2012/04/14/lockout/
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