"Smallville" Lockdown (2006)

User Rating:

8.1/10   

Director:

Peter Ellis

Writers:

Joe Shuster (characters) &
Jerry Siegel (characters) ...

TV Series:

"Smallville" (2001)

Original Air Date:

19 January 2006 (Season 5, Episode 11)

Genre:

Drama | Sci-Fi

Plot:

A deranged policeman who survived the attack of the Kryptonians and his policewoman fiancée break into...

Plot Keywords:

Smallville | Power | Meteor Shower | Kansas | Best Friends

Cast

Tom Welling	...	Clark Kent
Kristin Kreuk	...	Lana Lang
Michael Rosenbaum	...	Lex Luthor
Erica Durance	...	Lois Lane
Allison Mack	...	Chloe Sullivan
John Glover	...	Lionel Luthor
Annette O'Toole	...	Martha Kent
John Schneider	...	Jonathan Kent
Kevin Daniels	...	Greg Flynn
Camille Mitchell	...	Sheriff Nancy Adams
Sarah Lind	...	Sheriff's Deputy
Michael Ryan
Chris Shields	...	Courier
David MacInnis	...	EMT #2
Dean McKenzie	...	Campaign Manager

Runtime:

41 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Certification:

Mexico:B | USA:TV-PG | Netherlands:6

Filming Locations:

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

Smallville Films

Goofs:

Continuity: After the police find Lana's SUV and Clark arrives, it shows the headlights off, and when it shows the headlights in the next shot, after Clark runs away, the headlights are now on and no one entered the SUV during that time.

Quotes:

Clark Kent: Sheriff!
[holding a GPS device]
Clark Kent: It's a GPS.
Sheriff Nancy Adams: Someone must have been following her... How in the Sam Spade did you know where to find this?
Clark Kent: Just a hunch.
Sheriff Nancy Adams: You got an awful lot of those...

A good story and great visual effects

A Chinese saying goes like this: A crying baby would sooner get his mother's milk. The major worth-seeing plot in Lockdown is not the boring usual fight between Clark and Lana, not Sheriff Nancy Adams being shot by her "girl", not even the two traitors wanting to see the spaceship. What really catches the eye is Lana's obscure emotional shift to Lex, who's seriously injured by the effort of trying to save his lover with his "Flesh and Blood" body. Lana is obviously touched by his courage and perhaps some truthfulness apparently absent in Clark that she is craving for.

I was touched, however, by a scene in which Clark speeds through the big fire and runs onward with the unconscious Lana in his arms, great fire closing in. Great visual effects and irony are happening here. I think our heroin will make her own decision who should deserve more love. Clark, showing up almost every time saving her, but unscathed? No, he is always silent with no smart words to cover up his secrets. Lex, who's risking his life trying to save someone he loves? Well, yes, he does look nicer with little distinction between his true words and lies, doesn't it? In other words, he is the crying baby long trained to be exquisite for his words.

I give nine stars to this great presentation of the "crying baby" philosophy.