Before my screening of “Locked”, director David Yarovesky (“Brightburn”, “Nightbooks”) made a surprise appearance to thank the press and the special guests present, because it would be his first time watching the film with a crowd outside friends and colleagues. “When I started to make this film, I can’t tell you how many people have said” Oh cool, it’s totally a “” “streaming film” […] It is therefore surreal because when you enter an AMC and you see it on the screen like this, you do not know that it is a tiny independent film. “And he is right.” Locked “is the type of indie thriller Kurt Russell’s “breakdown” Or the vehicle Jeff Bridges and Tommy Lee Jones, “exploded” – which are now immediately thrown on a streamer and lost in the void of algorithms. We often say following the industry pivot According to the major franchises whose success is knececapé by irresponsibly enormous budgetsBut they no longer do them like that.
Fortunately, “Locked” is a reminder of a bygone era, for good and evil. The last addition to the cannon of “White People did what? They stayed stuck where?” Film sub-genre (Invented by Nirupam Dhakal Aka HUMEASMAMMOTH) “Locked” sees Bill Skarsgård exchanged in his orlok mustache for a makeover by Pete Davidson to play Eddie, a small criminal who quickly realizes that he is broken in the bad luxury vehicle after he finds himself trapped inside a boobytraped car belonging to a man named William (played by Sir Anthony Hopkins). This potentially fatal vehicle can only exist following an octogenarian ridiculously rich with a chip in the shape of a dirty Harry on his shoulder and path Too much time on his hands.
Produced by the legend of horror Sam Raimi and a remake of the Argentinian film “4×4”, your mileage can vary with “Locked”, an intimate piece with dedicated performances and a strangely relatable thematic nucleus, but thrills which leave a desire.
Locked is both too limited and too exaggerated
Once Eddie is in fancy and unique dolus (it is a modified Land Rover), the film must find ways to continue watching a man trapped in a car an entertaining experience. For the most part, “Locked” succeeds. Unlike “4×4”, the film includes a series of security cameras which allow on the occasion of the public to see Eddie from William’s point of view, but it often seems to be distracting and interrupts the voltage magnificently constructed from the performance of Skarsgård. Over the years, he turned out to be one of the most endless observable artists, so disturbing his flow becomes frustrating.
In addition, frustrating is the restraint of the film concerning its social policy. Eddie and William are engaged in debates on systemic negligence, the failures of the criminal justice system, poverty and generational divisions, but he does not swing strong enough. The comparison is the thief of joy, but “4×4” widens the conflict to the outside and brings the debate in the streets (literally), while “locked” the firmly interpersonal maintains between William and Eddie. The car acts as a microcosm of society, but by keeping it so intimate, it also loses the nuance of the complicated complicated conversations when taking into account reality that social groups are not monolithic. Given the current political climate, disinfection often gave me the impression that the film has irresponsibly managed such serious themes.
But at the same time, “Locked” is a film rather little put into service [complimentary]With excessive violence and some shocking graphic gore scenes that will quickly remind the public that it is a production of Sam Raimi. It is here that the film really takes up steam, with a terrifying chase scene featuring William in distance the car to track down Eddie’s young girl on the way back of the school, serving as the scene of the whole film. The tension is so effective that you forget that a few moments earlier, we had to listen to Hopkins armed the word “triggered”.
If the film had adopted its Gonzo side more and fully committed to the political exploitation of satires, it could have had the potential to be a sleeping blow. As much as it hurts to say it, “Locked” feels intended to be the future recipient of a film article with a title like “this forgotten thriller 2025 finds a new life on Netflix” (like this), despite the fact that it is, well considered, a fairly fun moment in the cinema.
Anthony Hopkins obtains his kicks by turning Bill Skarsgård
“Locked” lives and dies by the performance of a car trapped in the Skarsgård car and the mockery voice of Anthony Hopkins on the speakers of the vehicle, and it is obvious that the two have an absolute explosion. William de Hopkins in particular seems that he really has a day on the field that tackling Eddie de Skarsgård each time he drops an F bomb, and Skarsgård convinces the public that he is a bad distance from death throughout the duration of the execution. When Hopkins finally presents himself in the flesh, it is a welcome reminder that not only is he one of the best to do so, but being a few years old in 90 years has not slowed him down a bit.
But strangely, the tension of the film is a little a little how difficult it is to relate to William. While Eddie is, on paper, that of “bad” to break into the car, in the current American climate, it is impossible to see it as something other than the victim. William is the incarnation of old wealthy people complaining about the change of neighborhood on Nextdoor, and even when he revealed that he suffered a tragic loss in the hands of criminals that were unpunished, it is difficult not to think, “the old men will really transform an expensive car into a pale` `saw ” instead of going to therapy, hum?” At least with Jigsaw, we understood that his crimes were a last effort. William is just sociopathic due to the non-management of his own trauma. His decision to torture Eddie is not targeted, in particular. Rather, he forced this guy to bear the weight of his poorly directed anger. William suffered a tragic loss due to the systemic failures of our government and our judicial system, and instead of remembering who is the real enemy, decided to do so anyone He considers a lower personal problem that. And this is where the real power of “locked” lies.
Are we not all simply “poor stuck in the Boobytrapé car of the rich man without control over our environment” of life?
/ Film assessment: 4 out of 10
“Locked” opens in theaters on March 21, 2025.
