ActionYear1989Duration1h 49mIMDb6.4

Lock Up

ActionCrimeDrama

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.

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Cast

JF

John Flynn

Director

Sylvester Stallone

Frank

Donald Sutherland

Warden Drumgoole

John Amos

Meissner

Sonny Landham

Chink

Tom Sizemore

Dallas

Frank McRae

Eclipse

Darlanne Fluegel

Melissa

William Allen Young

Braden

Larry Romano

First Base

Jordan Lund

Manly

JL

John Lilla

Wiley

Dean Rader-Duval

Ernie

JS

Jerry Strivelli

Louie Munafo

David Anthony Marshall

Mastrone

Kurek Ashley

Chink's Gang

Michael Petroni

Chink's Gang

Danny Trejo

Chink's Gang

FD

Frank D'Annibale

Guard

RS

Richard Smith

Writer

Jeb Stuart

Writer

HR

Henry Rosenbaum

Writer

Comments

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Lock Up

Corey MavukaNov 16, 2022

Lock Up is a hard hitting and rough and tumble prison flick starring Sylvester Stallone. Backed with a solid supporting cast with Tom Sizemore, John Amos and Frank McRae. Plus with Donald Sutherland as a sadistic warden and Sonny Landham as a psychotic heavy, this movie has some great performances. Stallone plays an everyman that has survive his remaining time in prison from a minimum security facility to getting transferred into a maximum security penitentiary by a warden with a personal vendetta against Stallone. Stallone delivers a grueling physical and emotional performance in this film. Lock Up is not like most of the Stallone movies of this period as it is presented in a fairly serious and realistic fashion. Director John Flynn did a good job making this action drama both cohesive and engaging. Lock Up is a solid movie in my opinion and also somewhat overshadowed by some of Sly's more popular films. But I think this is great and really holds up well.

AhmedzidanNov 16, 2022

Freedom-loving Frank Leone, a fighter for justice who found himself in prison, is sure that in a few months he will leave its walls. He is an exemplary prisoner, but some jailers still remember his escape, which ended with an additional sentence for Frank and a ruined career as a director of the colony. The injured director has long "had a grudge" against him, so one wonderful morning the hero is suddenly transferred to another prison, a real hell, where the same Warden Drumgoole serves as the chief. His record is now stained by Frank's fault, and so he vows to give the prisoner Leone a fun life, provoke him to escape and prove that the hated convict is incorrigible...

Neo Mobor AkpofureNov 16, 2022

The movie starts off pretty slow. But the pace picks up. I enjoyed every minute of it. It shows the tortures and wars that go on in prison. Sutherland (drumcoole) plays the bad warden. Stallone (leone) plays the role of an an escaped convict who is in a good low-security prison having just 6 weeks to finish his term. Drumcoole gets him transferred to one of the worst prisons ever for taking his past vengeance.Drumcoole wants to take him in for life. And Leone has got to resist this and has to submit to his torture. But when it starts getting personal,Leone can't take it any more and wants to break out.But he breaks his golden rule " D.T.A "(Don't trust anyone). Stallone is in great shape and there are excellent realistic fight sequences in the movie. The last 15 minutes are the movie's best. A must-see for all Stallone fans as well as for the ppl who like thrillers or prison movies. Its a bomb-ass movie !!!

rue.BabyNov 16, 2022

I really enjoy watching this movie.Although the movie isn't much famous as Rambo or Rocky series it's a real masterpiece.Stallone gives an excellent performance as Frank Leone- a convict that is pushed too much and not fairily from the prison warden (D.Sutherland) who has a personal vendetta with him.Frank finally achieves in an astonishing way to prove that the warden has set him up in order to escape.There is where his personal drama ends. It's a drama-action-romance movie that it's worth to see it not only for the good performances(S.Stallone,T.Sizemore,L.Romano,F.McRay) but for the suspense especially in the end. For me it's just a Stallone's classic one, so take a seat and enjoy this really entertaining movie

Solo RimoNov 16, 2022

This film is a good entertaining Stallone film.Donald Sutherland,Sonny Landham,and Tom Sizemore were all good.It is entertaining and its a good jail fighting film.I wouldn't say it is Stallone's best film but if like Stallone, the above mentioned actors,and action its worth a watch!

Lakimora TshimangaNov 16, 2022

I often find myself disagreeing with the critics, but in this case I am in agreement with the other reviewers on this page... This is a terrific movie, pure entertainment. I am frankly tired of so many modern movies that are nothing but violence, nudity and special effects. Well, this movie is not one of them -- it actually has a good plot. Oh, what a rare treat! The best acting is not Stallone's (no surprise there) but that of Donald Sutherland's portrayal of the sadistic and bloodthirsty prison warden. And the scene with the Mustang nearly made me cry. If you haven't yet seen this film... What are you waiting for? You're missing what is probably Stallone's best films! Run, don't walk, to your nearest video store! :-)

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