Lock Up is a very underrated action prison drama that has a heart and I love it to death. Warden tried to break Stallone but he couldn't. Stallone is in prison and he keeps fighting for his life by a corrupt warden. I would put it right between Rocky and Rambo movies. Watching it last night this movie become my favorite best action movies. I love Lock Up to death and I love Cobra and Tango & Cash (1989). Like Death Warrant (1990), Bloodfist III: Forced To Fight (1992) and Hard Justice (1995) they copied this film, just Death Warrant is different prison film with my all time favorite action star Jean-Claude Van Damme. After this movie action stars copied this film and make a prison action Drama film.
When warden Drumgoole was pushing him to far, he remind me on Sheriff Teasle from First Blood (1982) I love this film and is definitely my third best Stallone favorite film from the 8o's.
When he was fighting Chink with the hat on it he definitely reminds me on Rocky. When prison guards are Pushing Frank Leone in a Gateway maximum security prison, his team spirit is unbroken. I would say this film is Rocky and Rambo two person's in one. Lock Up (1989) is underrated Stallone Action prison Drama film. If I ever needed a better line, he'd come up with one. Stallone is a smart guy and a very underrated actor. So we sat around and bullshitted with the prisoners. I had my movie star, all these extras and a great location - and the pages were on their way. There was one day when I was on the third tier of a cell-block in Rahway Penitentiary and I had nothing to shoot. Jeb and Henry were writing the script as we were making the movie. We finally found one in Rahway, New Jersey. Meanwhile, I'm going around scouting prisons. So we all go back to New York City, and move into a hotel where Larry 'tortures' Jeb and Henry Rosenbaum into writing a script in record time. Now we have a star, a theme, a shooting date, a budget, a studio, but we still have no script.
So we hire Jeb Stuart, who was then one of the hottest writers in Hollywood, to rewrite the script and we go off looking for prison locations. All we have is a theme - a guy escaping from prison. So we have a director and a star, but no script. Woods says yeah, he's a good director and you ought to work with him. Stallone calls James Woods and asks if I'm any good as a director. Larry Gordon had a terrible script set in a prison. Stallone had a 'window' which means the guy was available for a certain window of time. Chartrand for Shock Cinema: " Lock Up (1989) is a strange lesson in how Hollywood movies are made. Director John Flynn has said of this movie, in a 2005 interview with Harvey F.
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