{"id":11848,"date":"2025-05-08T09:50:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T13:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/?p=11848"},"modified":"2025-05-08T09:50:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T13:50:16","slug":"locked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/2025\/05\/08\/locked\/","title":{"rendered":"Locked"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Locked<\/strong> (2025)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Avenue\/Action-Thriller\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 95 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (strong violent content\/bloody images, language throughout, brief drug use)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: David Yarovesky\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Michael Arlen Ross\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Tim Williams\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Michael Dallatorre\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: March 21, 2025 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Bill Skarsgard, Anthony Hopkins, Ashley Cartwright, Michael Eklund, Navid Charkhi.<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: ***<\/p>\n

\u00a0The action-thriller Locked<\/strong> takes place mainly inside a luxury SUV designed by its psychotic owner to torture anyone dumb enough to break into it. The dummy in question is Eddie Barrish (Skarsgard, It), a guy who might as well have a big flashing neon sign above his head reading \u201cLOSER\u201d. The universe appears to be against him in every way. He can\u2019t afford to have his van fixed meaning he\u2019s unable to pick up his young daughter Sarah (Cartwright) from school. His ex gives him s*** for it. The mechanic is the opposite of sympathetic. Nobody will lend him money. He\u2019s reduced to checking vehicles for something to steal. That\u2019s when his troubles increase tenfold.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Eddie sees the unattended, unlocked SUV and rifles through it for something to sell. When he tries to exit the vehicle, it automatically locks him inside. While fruitlessly trying to escape, the phone keeps ringing. When Eddie finally answers, it\u2019s the vehicle\u2019s owner, a chap calling himself William (Hopkins, The Silence of the Lambs) who\u2019s controlling everything from his location. He explains that he had the car built after several other break-ins. He\u2019s looking to leave his mark on the world before he dies of cancer by eliminating criminals like Eddie. But first, he wants to f*** with him. The seats are rigged with tasers that deliver painful electrical shocks whenever Eddie swears or tries to cover the cameras. When he\u2019s really bad, William can raise or lower the temperature and play music that hurts Eddie\u2019s ears- e.g. yodeling.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Most of the film concerns Eddie\u2019s attempts to escape from captivity. Unfortunately, his captor is always a few steps ahead. Also, he\u2019s bat crap crazy. At one point, he takes a screaming Eddie on a wild ride through the city (it was filmed in Vancouver) during which he runs over a couple of muggers in an alley. Then he decides to go after little Sarah.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Directed by David Yarovesky (Brightburn), Locked<\/strong> is a sufficiently suspenseful single-setting thriller. He makes the most of the small confined space that serves as a torture chamber. We watch as Eddie starts to lose it due to a combination of factors- fear, panic, hunger, thirst and claustrophobia. In the role, Skarsgard does a pretty good job. The actor has been a busy boy as of late. In the past year, he\u2019s been in three other films- Boys Kills World, The Crow and Nosferatu. The wretched Crow reboot notwithstanding, he has a fairly solid resume. In Locked<\/strong>, he\u2019s kind of like a less funny version of Pete Davidson. His character can\u2019t catch a break to save his life. Things consistently go from bad to worse for this guy. Skarsgard believable conveys the notion of a street-level criminal in a dire situation, one that could very well end in his death. He goes from angry to scared and panicked then to penitent. It\u2019s convincing.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Hopkins, who literally phones it in here, always makes a great villain. Fear not, the acclaimed actor shows himself in time for the finale. Until then, he\u2019s just a menacing voice on the phone. He controls Eddie\u2019s environment and refuses to show mercy. He\u2019s like a vengeful God passing judgment. The cool thing about Hopkins is his willingness to go slumming in films that aren\u2019t prestige projects like The Remains of the Day and Shadowlands (both 1993). He followed up his Oscar-winning role in The Silence of the Lambs with the junky dystopian sci-fi piece Freejack (1992). He took a cue from Laurence Olivier (Zeus in Clash of the Titans) by playing Odin in the Thor movies (2011-17). Although the 87YO actor shows signs of slowing down a bit, he hasn\u2019t lost that edge that makes him an effective villain.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Locked <\/strong>has its fair share of jolts and thrills. It has an interesting premise, decent storyline and a protagonist you may not like at first. You come to sympathize with him and his current plight not to mention the steady stream of bad luck that follows him around. In the end, you want him to escape so he can be with his daughter who seems to need him. Where is this girl\u2019s mother? We never see her. We only hear her voice on the phone once when she calls to give Eddie a hard time about his failings as a father. The point is I like Locked<\/strong>. It\u2019s a pretty good thriller. I can think of worse ways to kill 95 minutes.\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Locked (2025)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Avenue\/Action-Thriller\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 95 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (strong violent content\/bloody images, language throughout, brief drug use)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: David Yarovesky\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Michael Arlen Ross\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Tim Williams\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Michael Dallatorre\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: March 21, 2025 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Bill Skarsgard, Anthony Hopkins, Ashley Cartwright, Michael Eklund, Navid Charkhi. Rating: *** \u00a0The action-thriller Locked takes place […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11865,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-suspense-thrillers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Locked-PIC.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11848"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11867,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11848\/revisions\/11867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}