Before screening “Locked,” director David Yarovesky (“Brightburn”, “Nightbooks”) made a surprise appearance to thank the press and special guests, as it was his first time watching the film with a crowd outside of his friends and colleagues. “When I started making this film, I can’t tell you how many people said, ‘Oh cool, that’s a completely streaming movie.’ […] When you step into AMC and watch it on screen like this, you don’t know that it’s a small indie movie, so it’s surreal. “And he’s right. ‘Locked’ is an indie thriller in the cinema bread and butter type. It was thrown at the streamer and lost to the algorithm void.
Luckily, “Locked” reminds us of the days that have passed, both good and bad. “What did the latest addition to Canon for white people do? Where did they get stuck?” movie subgenre (Made by Nirupam Dhakal aka gugeasmammoth) “Locked” Bill Skarsgold plays Eddie in Pete Davidson’s transformation after seeing his Count Orlock Marksch deal. This potentially deadly vehicle exists only as a result of a slip-dically wealthy Octenarian with a dirty Harry-shaped tip on his shoulder. method It takes too long to his hands.
Produced by horror legend Sam Raimi and the remake of the Argentine film 4×4, your mileage may differ from the “locked” of “locked”.
Locked is too restrained and too above
Once Eddie becomes the flashy and unique Dorus (it’s a modified Land Rover), the film has to find a way to continue to watch the man trapped in a car. In most cases, “locked” is a success. Unlike “4×4”, the film includes a series of security cameras, where the audience can sometimes see Eddie from William’s perspective, but often feels distracted, interrupting the beautifully constructed tension from Skarsgard’s performance. Over the years, he has proven to be one of the most endless performers, so disrupting his flow becomes frustrating.
What’s more frustrating is the suppression of films about its socio-politics. Eddie and William are engaged in debate about systemic neglect, the failure of the criminal justice system, poverty, and generational disparities, which do not shake violently enough. Comparison is a joyous thief, but “4×4” expands the conflict outwards and (literally) expands the argument, while “locked” keeps it firmly and interpersonal between William and Eddie. The car acts as a microcosm of society, but keeping it so intimate, it loses the nuance of how complicated these conversations are, given the reality that social groups are not monolithic. Considering the current political situation, disinfection often felt as if the film had irresponsibly handled such serious themes.
But at the same time, “Locked” is a rather unsafe movie [complimentary]there are over the top violence and some shockingly graphic Gore scenes that immediately remind the audience that this is a Samurai production. Here, the film is really regaining steam. William remotely controls the car to keep Eddie’s young girl on the way home from school, which serves as a standout set for the entire film. Tension is so effective that at an early moment, I had to hear Hopkins weaponize the word “trigger.”
If the film had embraced more of its Gonzo side and was completely committed to the exploitation of political satire, this could have been a sleeper. “Locked” feels like he is a future recipient of “Lock” with titles like “This Forgotten 2025 Thriller Finds a New Life on Netflix” (such as).
Anthony Hopkins gets a kick that tormented Bill Skarsgard
“Locked” and dies “Rocked” with the trapped performance of a trapped Skarsgard and Anthony Hopkins’ provocative voice against the vehicle’s speakers. In particular, it sounds like Hopkins’ William really has a Field Day that leaves the editor of Skarsgard every time he drops an f bomb. Skarsgard easily convinces the audience that he was the wrong move since he was killed throughout the runtime. When Hopkins finally appears in the flesh, he is not only the best at doing it, but he is also welcomed that being 90 year old shy doesn’t slow him down a bit.
But, strangely enough, the tension in the film is tempered a bit by how difficult it is to relate to William. Eddie is “wrong” to break into a car on paper, in the current American climate, but it’s impossible to see him as anything other than the victim. William is the embodiment of a wealthy old man complaining about the change in the neighbourhood at the door next door, and even when it was revealed that he suffered a tragic loss at the hands of a criminal who was not punished, “Wouldn’t the old man turn a really expensive car into a ‘saw’ trap, instead of turning it into a ‘saw’? ” At least at Jigsaw, he understood his crime was his last effort. William is merely a sociopathology as a result of not dealing with his own trauma. His decision to torture Eddie doesn’t specifically target him. He instead forces this random guy to endure the brunt of his misdirected rage. William has experienced tragic losses due to the systemic failure of the government and the judicial system, and instead of remembering who the real enemy is, he decides to make it. Anyone He thinks it’s less than personal issues. And there is the true power of being “locked.”
Isn’t we all just “the poor people are stuck in the booby tapped cars of the wealthy people who have no control over our surroundings”?
/Film Rating: 4 out of 10
“Rock” will begin at the theater on March 21st, 2025.
