Lock Up

Movie Ranked #299 | 1989 - Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
With only six months left of his sentence, inmate Frank Leone is transferred from a minimum security prison to a maximum security prison by a vindictive warden.Frank Leone is nearing the end of his prison term for a relatively minor crime. Just before he is paroled, however, Warden Drumgoole takes charge. Drumgoole was assigned to a hell-hole prison after his administration was publicly humiliated by Leone, and has now arrived on the scene to ensure that Leone never sees the light of day.
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Best two reviews:
1) Empire - A hard-boiled version of Rocky, with enough anti-Balboa brutality to keep our interest. (Rating: 60) Read Full Review >
2) Washington Post - The film is a sort of prison fantasy, in which all the most popular boys in the cellblock have a high time together, smoking cigarettes, working on cars and spraying each other with paint guns...All the while you're thinking, "What is this, ancient Greece?" (Rating: 60) Read Full Review >

Worst two reviews:
4) Variety - Lock Up is made in the same, simplistic vein as most other Sylvester Stallone pics - putting him, the blue-collar protagonist, against the odds over which he ultimately prevails. (Rating: 40) Read Full Review >
5) TV Guide - With nothing in the way of performance to cling to, the audience is left to marvel at the mounting inanity of each scene. (Rating: 38) Read Full Review >
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