LOCKED (2025)

The day after I watched this film, I mindlessly walked through a parking lot towards my car, opened the driver’s side door only to see a much plusher interior than my own. I promptly closed the door as a chill ran down my spine. You’ll understand if you watch Locked, the claustrophobic survival thriller remake of the Argentinian film 4×4 (2019). The film pits Eddie, a petty thief played by the admirably busy Bill Skarsgård – It (2017), Nosferatu (2024) – against the fair and square William, played by the legendary and always articulate Sir Anthony Hopkins – The Elephant Man (1980), The Bounty (1980), The Silence of the Lambs (1991). Like a moth to a flame, criminal Eddie finds himself trapped in William’s luxury SUV, where he’s going to learn a thing or two about crime, punishment and bullet-proof glass. Imagine 127 hours (2010), Buried (2010) and Wrecked (2010) mixed together into a reserved version of Saw (2004), all of which might not have amounted to much if not for Skarsgård, who squeezes every ounce of humanity out of the limited and unsympathetic Eddie. Hopkins is also, of course, excellent as the upper crust counterpart, creating a new voice to match his most current questionable character. 

WATCH OR NOT: WATCH

Additional musings: Perhaps a tad generic, but not bad, well-paced and entertaining.