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‘Locked’ Review: Bill Skarsgård and Anthony Hopkins Square Off in a Battle of Wheels
Directed by David Yaroevsky (Brightburn'), this containment thriller set in a car fails to take audiences on a memorable journey.
Until then unable to pick up his daughter Sarah (Ashley Cartwright) from school — a show of responsibility he hopes will facilitate a reconciliation with his wife Amy (Gabrielle Walsh) — Eddie desperately scrounges for cash, eventually deciding to loot the nearest car that’s unlocked. Though he provides a backstory — involving a crime that ended with the death of a family member — to explain his thirst for vengeance, William is otherwise a wealthy one-percenter who not only custom designed the car and its many bells and whistles, but harps on social permissiveness and entitlement to validate his point of view. As Eddie, Skarsgård doesn’t carry the automatic likability to get the audience on board with his plight; perhaps it’s because he’s played creeps and weirdos so effectively in the past, but he fails to make us believe the character’s insistence that he truly cares about his family, and is just a day away from turning everything around for the better.
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