Tango and Cash How many maximum security prisons have full on garages with beautiful cars in them? I'm guessing not many. Also, think about this...the people in this prison are the scum of the earth - they're murderers, child molesters, the worst people on the planet. But for some reason we're getting behind these people and rooting for them? Only the one guy (Stallone) doesn't deserve to be there. All the rest of them (except for the 1% or so who could be innocent) are revolting, horrible people. Makes "Tango and Cash" look like "Citizen Kane." This turkey is bad from the first moment, with that 80s sentimental/emotional/uplifting synthesizer riff so we know this is the good guy. He's good with children, he's kind, all roses and sunshine. Then the dark scene with the man with the scowl on his face and the music is in minor key. Yep, that's the bad guy. Just in case you didn't pick up on that.

Taylor Kingston I really enjoy this movie. I think even thirty years later, this movie still holds up. It's another great Stallone movie and it's very entertaining and enjoyable to watch.In this movie, Frank Leone is nearing the end of his prison sentence for a relatively minor crime. But just before he is paroled, Frank gets transferred from his minimum security prison to a maximum security prison, Warden Drumgoole takes charge. The Warden was assigned to control this hell-hole prison because of Frank's and thinks that now he should pay. He is determined to make Frank's life miserable for as long as possible. Overall, I give this movie a 7 out of 10, which in my ratings book is: Great.

Schuriken As far as I'm concerned, Stallone is still locked up fighting warden Drumgoole inside the darkest prison corners.There should be a sequel where Dallas gets resurrected inside the prison by electricity, becomes a frankenstein zombie and hunts down the warden and the guards together with Stallone.I also think that Stallone's girlfriend should be trapped inside the prison and escape with Dallas at the end with the red Mustang. In the third sequel Drumgoole finally dies in the same prison in the electric chair by Chink Weber and Chink becomes the new warden.In the fourth & final chapter the red Mustang gets the "Christine" powers outside the prison, rebuilds itself and breaks in the prison again and busts out Stallone and First Base and the prison is blown to a million pieces.The next installation is in space. Drumgoole is now married to Chink Weber in the after life and comes back with the Cenobites to hunt down Leone.Again...and again...and again....

Shawn Watson In the same year he escaped from prison with Kurt Russell in Tango & Cash, Stallone was locked-up again in this gritty, grim thriller. Frank Leone is an ordinary man forced into avenging thugs who beat-up his kindly old mentor. He's put in prison for the crime but escapes just before his sentence is up so he can be with the old man at his deathbed. His escape and subsequent publicity shames Warden Drumgoole (a very evil Donald Sutherland), who is blacklisted with in the Penal system. Leone serves out his remaining six months in a cozy, minimum security facility and dreams of returning home to his girlfriend. In the middle of the night he is dragged from his bed and taken to Drumgoole's new domain; Gateway, the worst prison in America. Drumgoole intends to make Leone serve very, very hard time, pushing him to his limits in hope that he might lash out and thus extend his sentence.It goes through a lot of prison movie clichés, and I guess it doesn't really stand out against the better or more exciting movies in the genre. It entertains and is occasionally engaging, but is by no means a classic. The animosity between Leone and Drumgoole is interesting, and the casting of crazy Sonny Landham as the yard boss is quite scary, but again, these are all clichés. Stallone brought back Bill Conti (his old pal from the Rocky movies) to score the movie, but he effort is totally inappropriate and the light touch to the music spoils the intensity of many scenes. A different composer might have resulted in a more memorable movie. You'll never really feel the need to revisit Lock Up after a single viewing.