Love the bridge-save. Finally a comic movie other than Batman with some fucking scale and human emotion.
This movie is right in the middle for me. It’s too fucking good to be DTV but it doesn’t quite measure up to being a theatrical feature. It’s the kind of movie you’d like to watch in the back of the family minivan while a hooker performs a Rusty Trombone on you for a solid ninety minutes.
….and wrote about it over on Phil’s site. I think it’s the first review up for it on THE WHOLE WORLD WIDE WEB!
http://www.liveforfilms.com/2012/04/02/review-lockout/
It’s been fifteen years since Van Halen issued a studio album, and almost twice as long since cutting their last with the charismatic, karate-kicking howler monkey-in-leather-chaps named David Lee Roth. The Diamond One allegedly ditched the California quartet for movie stardom after touring the multiplatinum masterpiece 1984. But when his Hollywood plans fell short, Dave returned to basics, releasing the terrific, if atypical, covers EP (Crazy from the Heat) and two worthwhile full-lengths with acrobatic super-shredders Steve Vai and Billy Sheehan (Eat ‘em and Smile, Skyscraper). Meanwhile, brothers Eddie (guitar) and Alex (drums) Van Halen soldiered on with Sammy Hagar at the wheel of their hit-making motor machine. The slick 80’s “Van Hagar” sound irked some old school fans, but won over just as many new listeners; the history books attest VH achieved even more commercial success than before with the “Red Rocker.”
