Lockout (2012)

The year is 2079 and unfortunately corruption is still alive and well in Washington D.C.

Ex-CIA Operative, Snow (Guy Pearce) has been arrested and is now being interrogated by the Head of Secret Service - Special Agent Scott Langral (Peter Stormare); Langral wants Snow to tell him what happened in a New York City hotel room the night CIA Agent Colonel Frank Armstrong was killed, but Snow doesn’t trust Langral and is refusing to tell him anything.

 (Apparently, Frank had a package containing evidence about an inside spy selling Top Secret information. Snow was supposed to help Frank deliver his package to the president. But Snow got to the room too late, assailants were already in the room and one of them shot Frank before Snow could kill him. Just before Frank died, he handed Snow his dog tags and a flip top lighter and told him not to let them get it. All of the sudden, lights were flashing and bullets were flying, Snow grabbed the briefcase laying on the floor next to Frank and took off. He managed to make it to the subway station where his buddy, Mace (Tim Plester) was waiting for him on a train, but police had him surrounded so he threw the briefcase into the train and watched it pull away. Mace took the briefcase to another station and hid it in a locker but while he was leaving, his gun fell out of his jacket and accidentally shot a police officer.)

Langral tells Snow that Frank was under surveillance for selling secrets about our space programs, and then he played a recording of Snow shooting Frank from behind. But that wasn’t how it happened. Pretty soon CIA Agent Harry Shaw (Lennie James) enters the room, and Langral steps out. Snow knows Harry and obviously trusts him because he told Harry that Mace has the briefcase. Langral has gone to speak with President Warnock (Peter Hudson) about Snow, and they learn that his daughter Emily Warnock (Maggie Grace) is away on a humanitarian errand.

She’s on a spaceship headed for America’s most efficient means of managing convicted criminals. M.S. ONE, a highly advanced outer space Maximum Security Prison equipped to house over 500,000 of the world’s most dangerous criminals by using a controversial procedure called Stasis (a controlled deep sleep). However, at the moment it’s still in a test phase and currently only holding about 500 prisoners. Emily’s mission is to learn more about the long term effects of Stasis on humans. So in a well secured setting, Emily will get to interview Hydell (Joseph Gilgun), an inmate who has just been awakened from Stasis.

And back on Earth, Langral informs Snow that he has just been convicted of first degree murder and conspiracy to commit espionage against the United States; and his sentence, a 30 year Stasis on M.S. One and it’s effective immediately.

Meanwhile up on M.S. One, there’s been a hostile takeover; Hydell got a hold of a gun, released all the prisoners and now he and his brother Alex (Vincent Regan) are holding the prison guards and staff including the president’s daughter hostage. The president needs Snow to go up to M.S. One, find and safely return Emily back down to Earth. But Snow rejects the idea until Harry secretly informs him that Mace is up on M.S One; Mace is the only one that knows where that briefcase is, and getting that briefcase back is the only way for Snow to regain his freedom. So, with that knowledge Snow accepts the mission. And once onboard M.S. One Snow will need all of his operative skills plus a whole lot of luck; he has to battle the inmates, bypass the security’s technology, get the girl, get Mace, locate their escape pods, get the girl again because the inmates got her back. Oh yes – and the clock is ticking; with no one to monitor the facility’s navigational system they are slowly falling out of space and will collide with Earth within roughly 8 hours: so Special Forces have been deployed to blow the prison up while it’s still in space. And even if they make it off the facility in time, there's still no telling what Snow's fate may be when he returns to Earth.