Reviews

• 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?"

  Hal Hinson - The Washington Post
  
  19 January 2013

• Put the whole movie down to cartoonery...This is a drive-in theater battle of wills between the forces of evil and the forces of good.

  - The Washington Post
  
  19 January 2013

• A hard-boiled version of Rocky, with enough anti-Balboa brutality to keep our interest.

  - Empire
  
  19 January 2013

• For torture and violence freaks, every clank and thud is duly and hyperbolically registered.

  Jonathan Rosenbaum - Chicago Reader
  
  19 January 2013

• 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.

  - Variety
  
  19 January 2013