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52 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 6 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 6
  3. Negative: 1 out of 6
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  1. Empire
    Reviewed by: Tom Tunney
    60
    A hard-boiled version of Rocky, with enough anti-Balboa brutality to keep our interest.
  2. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Hal Hinson
    60
    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?"
  3. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Desson Howe
    60
    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.
  4. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Rosenbaum
    60
    For torture and violence freaks, every clank and thud is duly and hyperbolically registered.
  5. Variety
    Reviewed by: Staff (Not Credited)
    40
    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.
  6. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Staff (Not Credited)
    38
    With nothing in the way of performance to cling to, the audience is left to marvel at the mounting inanity of each scene.
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