Lockout wants desperately for you to believe that its hero, the wise-cracking Snow (Guy Pearce), is a bad enough dude to save the president’s daughter. If creating an action hero were like ordering sushi a la carte, Snow would be the type of man who checks off a lot of boxes: Ex-CIA, wears leather jackets and sloganeering t-shirts, spouts rapid-fire jokes, uses big guns, has an active disinterest in forming relationships with attractive women, habitually smokes. Snow smokes despite a friend’s protest that it’s the future and nobody does that anymore. That’s how cool Snow is. He’s such a bad dude, he could likely rescue two president’s daughters. Read more