Lockout received more than 104 critics on Rotten Tomatoes and an average score of more than 4.95/10 .
The film earned a score of 48 out of 100 from 30 critics on review aggregate website Metacritic , indicating `` mixed or average '' reviews , and garnered 34 % approval from 102 critics on Rotten Tomatoes – an average score of 4.9 out of 10 – whose consensus reads : `` Guy Pearce does the best he can with what he 's given , but Lockout is ultimately too derivative and shallow to build on the many thrillers it borrows from . ''