‘Loked’ Review: Bill Skarsgard and Anthony Hopkins Class Up Silly High-Concept Thriller

Prospective Car Thieves, Take Note. If You’ve Broken Into a Luxury Suv Only to Find that You’re Trapped Inside by Its Vengeful Owner, Don’t Answer The Car Phone Hen It Rings. On the Other hand, if you don’, you’ll be deprived of the pleasure of hearing the Dulcet tones of anthony hopkins in his most purring psychopathic mode.

Eddie Barrish, The Financially Desperate, Hapless Criminal in this High-Concept Thriller, Is Played by Bill Skarsgard, Who For Once Is On the Receive End of Evil. Serves HIM RIGHT FOR EVERYTHING HE DID AS PENNYWISE AND COUNT ORLOK.

Locked is an American Remake of 4 × 4A 2019 Argentinian Thriller That Garnered Praise On the Festival Circuit. IT REVOLVES AROUND OF IDEA HATCHED by a Clever Screenwriter During a Late-Night Drinking Sessation. The Main Character, Who We Know Is A DeCent Sort of Criminal Because of How Much He Cares for His Young Daughter (Ashley Cartwright), Gets The Tables Turned on Him Who’s Pick IT’s Apparently Been Rigged Into An Impenetrable Torture Device On Wheels. (It’s Obviously Not a Tesla, Since All The High-Tech Controls Work Perfectly.)

And by impenetrable, i mean from the Insideas eddie discovers that the doors and windows are locked, the vekhicle is soundprof, and the Windows are tinted so no one can see of screaming for help – Even. Her Lipstick. The suv is also bulletprofroof, as eddie painfullly discovers WHEN HETIES CHOTING HIS WAY OUT AND THE BULLET RICOCHETS AND HITS HIM IN THE LEG.

WHEN The Phone Rings and the WORDS “ANSWER ME” APEAR ON THE CONSOLE, an Understandably Rattled Eddie Refuse to Answer. But The Caller Is Persent, SO EDDIE FINALLY PICKS UP.

“Jolly Good, Welcome Aboard,” The Man On the Other End of the Line Says in a Silky Accent. He Introduces HimSelf as William, Says He’s from South Wales, and Explans that He’s Fed Up After Having Had His Vehicle Broken Into Six Times With No Arrests. He Proceeds to Torture the Trapped Eddie With Electric Shocks Delivered from the Car Seats, Uncontrollable Heat and Air Conditioning, and, Worst of All, Deafeening Polyka Music Music.

Naturally, The Conversation (and Good God, There’s A Lot of It) Turns Philosophical. “Have you read Crime and Punishment? ” EDDIE asks his toormentor, licening HimSelf to the main Character of Dostoevsky’s Classic. William Takes Control of the Car and Puts Him Through A Wild Ride Indeed. The Great Gatsby Too Many Times.

It All Plays As Artificially As It Sounds, But As Tautly Directed by David YaroveSky (Brightburn) Locked Manages to MainTain Its Silly But Arresting Premise Througout Its Fortunately Brief Running Time. It Helps, Of Course, That Main Characters Are Played by Skarsgard, Who Delivers An Intensel Committed Performance As the Criminal Being Tortured Both Physichally and Psychol Talent for Highly Articulate, Beautify-Soounding Villains Has Served Him Well Througout His Lengthy Career. We do eventural get to see william as Well as Hear Him, But It’s A Good Bet That Veteran Actor Relized The Opportunity To Literally Phone in MOST OF HIS Performance.