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I decided to check what was on my bucket list although more recent movies I have watch, decided to watch Locked (2025) and Drop (2025), both horror movies that are decent but I can't denied I was tempted to fast forward a few times. If you watch Locked poster you will know immediately what it is about, not an easy movie to make since its one of those tight space movies with very few characters, the movie focus on Eddie Barrish fucked up live as a father, thief and he even looked like recovering from drug addiction although I'm not so sure if they mention it during the movie. Eddie's Van alternator broke and he needed less than $500 to repair it but had no cash at the moment so he starts trying to look for cars left open and see what he can steal until he got into the wrong car.
- IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26671996/
- Platform: AppleTV+
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I wasn't sure what to expect since Skarsgard movies are not my favorites and the last movie I saw from him, The Crow remake wasn't any good. For Anthony Hopkins all I have is love for because most if not 80% of his movies are good and consider he is the iconic "Hannibal", probably the perfect guy for this movie when it comes to be the role of the oppressor. The plot is very simple although not so predictable to what is going to happen in the short term, the ending I never saw coming, I though it would be more develop but I'm satisfied with.
What kept me watching the movie was the constant cat and mouse between Eddie and William, most of the time William had the upper hand and even though Hopkins doesn't have much screen time you know its him, well at least that's how I felt, in my case I didn't watch any trailers or even look at the movie profile in IMDB so it was a cool surprise for me when Hopkins shows up for the first time, I even had doubts because on the first scene you could only see his eyes.
William owns a luxury SUV, brand Dolus, the car is bullet proof and almost impossible to get out of once you are inside. He had the car just sitting on a parking lot under a pole light, waiting for the next thief as the car is open, the car itself is a trap where once the thief gets in he would lock him down, Eddie makes the perfect candidate not because he is a thief but he also have some kind of anger and attitude issues where at first goes wild trying to get out, swearing, screaming, he even tries to shoot the window but gets himself shot in the leg as the bullet bounce back, I'm not sure if that's how it works in real life though. William patch him up after Eddie pass out after loosing a good amount of blood, I doubt anyone would recover like Eddie does without any kind of food or medicine but the movie goes one and its here where they fall into all kind of arguments, Eddie mostly trying to trick William to let him go but it's never that easy.
I really enjoy the movie as it has intense moments, specially towards the end of it but it also drags in the middle. Making confine space movies with very little characters in my experience are the hardest to pull off and most of the time they are no good, Locked (2025) is a great attempt but I still felt tempted to press the forward button a couple of times when the script became predictable and felt like they were just trying to kill time and stretch the story, reason why I dont feel like giving it more than a 6/10 but still feeling its worth watching only if you have nothing else to watch, I wouldn't pay to watch it at the cinema though. Hopkins does a great job specially towards the end and honestly I think this is the best movie I have seen from Skargard looking just like a regular guy, he has done some other horror movies but its always on this kind of special character but in Locked (2025) he looks like a regular guy and I think that's what caught my attention.
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