Review of Lock Up

Lock Up (1989)
5/10
Stallone behind bars, possibly for making the movie "Rhinestone".
5 October 2009
This movie was supposed to be inspiring or something I guess, but it just seems to unbelievable that it sort of ruins the movie. Stallone is locked up in a rather cozy prison as he was in a fiercer prison, but managed to expose a corrupt warden played by Sutherland. Well this warden is now in charge of a really bad place and manages to get Stallone's character transferred in by what would amount to a kidnapping. At this point one would ask how Sutherland's character can get away with this and there is seemingly nothing anyone can do is beyond me. The guy has already proved to be a bad warden so how is he wielding this much power? Well the rest of the movie is your typical prison movie fare as Stallone makes friends and enemies in his new home, while trying to figure out how once again to expose the warden who has already been proved to be corrupt that he is even worse than first realized. You also have a football game and a dude that really likes roaches. This movie also features that one Indian dude from Predator, you know the one that thought he was a real tough guy who threw away his gun and met the Predator head on and promptly got killed. The movie has some good points, and is watchable, but it follows the same formula of any prison movie with an absurd premise.
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