The first five minutes of the upcoming Luc Besson-produced sci-fi action flick Lockout have been released. You can watch the action-packed clip here below.

The movie gets right into the thick of the action with a cheeky introduction to our hero Snow (Guy Pearce), an ex-CIA agent who gets set up, double-crossed, and sent to prison. The introduction intercuts his interrogation-cum-face pounding with the backstory as to how he got there. There’s a thrilling chase, some close quarters fisticuffs, and Pearce gets plenty of wiseass one-liners. Don’t know about you folks but I’ll take this over that Total Recall remake any day. Lockout may be derivative as hell, but it sure ain’t afraid to wear its influences with a shit-eating grin of pride.

Over the weekend a clip from the upcoming sci-fi action flick Lockout was screened at WonderCon. Now the five-minute scene has been released online.

You can watch it here below.

The plot focuses on a convicted felon (Guy Pearce) who is handed the task of rescuing the President’s daughter (Maggie Grace) from a prison that has been taken over by some of its most violent inmates. Only problem is the prison is in outerspace.

Lock-Out, which on certain days goes by the alternate title MS: Maximum Security One, is the latest product from French action filmmaker Luc Besson‘s (La Femme Nikita) assembly line of big-budget drive-in movies, and judging from the early previews it’s shaping up to be one of the best.

The latest trailer for the movie has been released and you can watch it here below.

In addition to talking about how his latest film, Colombiana, began as a sequel to the 1994 Luc Besson film, The Professional, director Olivier Megaton also chatted about another sequel he has coming up in Taken 2.

Megaton talked about approaching the sequel cautiously, as well as figuring out how to utilize star Liam Neeson, who even he admits was in a movie that was all too similar to Taken with the 2011 flick, Unknown.

A new face has joined the world of Twilight. Star of the hit television series, LOST, and the Liam Neeson action thriller, Taken, Maggie Grace will be appearing in the two part final installment of the franchise, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn.

Grace will be playing Irina, one of the Denali sisters and a member of the Denali Coven, who were close friends to the Cullen family and fellow vegetarian vampires. Her and her sisters When Irina’s lover is killed, she blames the Cullens and takes action, leading to a ripple effect of very bad things happening.

Along with Lost and Taken, Grace has also appeared in movies like The Fog, Knight & Day, and Flying Lessons, with a few more on the way including Faster.