Prior to my "locked" show, director David Jarovski ("Britgurn", "Night Books") made a surprise look to thank the press and the special guests who attended, as this would be the first time to watch the movie with a crowd out of friends and colleagues. "When I started shooting this movie, I can't tell you how many people said" Oh, cool, it's a total streaming movie ", (...), it's surreal because when you go to AMC and watch it on the screen, you don't know it's a small film for Indy." are the fillers of the seats like Kurt Russell's "Fault" Or the Effef Bridges and Tommy Lee Onesons, the "blown" - which are now immediately thrown into Strimmer and are lost on the algorithms. Is often said in anticipation of the industry's pivot to Depending on the big franchises whose success is knees with irresponsibly huge budgetsBut they don't really do it anymore.

Fortunately, "locked" is a reminder of a past era, for good and bad. The latest addition to the canon of "white people did what? They got stuck where?" Submitters of movies (Invented by Nirupam duck aka Hugeasmammoth) "Locked" sees that Bill Scarsgard trades in his Count Orlock mustache for Pitt Davidson's rearrangement to play Eddie, a small criminal who quickly realizes that he is broken in a wrong luxury car after finding himself trapped inside a bumpy car. This potentially deadly vehicle can only exist as a result of a ridiculously rich Octogenarian with a dirty chip in the shape of a harry on the shoulder and way Too much time on the hands.

Made from the horror legend Sam Raimi and a remake of the Argentine film "4x4", your mileage can vary with a "locked", intimate piece of dedicated performances and a strange relatively thematic core, but excitement leaving much to be desired.

Once Eddie is in fancy, one-of-a-kind downs (it's modified Land Rover), the film must find ways to creatively continue to watch a person trapped in a car fun experience. For the most part, "locked" is successful. Unlike "4x4", the film includes a series of security cameras that occasionally allow the audience to see Eddie from William's point of view, but often feels like distracting and interrupting the tension that is being built well from Scarsgard's performance. Over the years, he has proven to be one of the most terrifying performers, so the disruption of his flow becomes frustrating.

In addition, the film's restraint in relation to its social policy is frustrating. Both Eddie and William engage in systemic neglect debates, failures of the criminal justice system, poverty and generational divisions, but do not turn hard enough. The comparison is the thief of joy, but "4x4" expands the conflict outward and brings the street debate (literally), while "locked" keeps it firmly interpersonal between William and Eddie. The car acts as a microcosm of society, but by maintaining it so intimately, it also loses its nuance on how complicated these conversations can become in factoring in reality that social groups are not monolithic. Given the current political climate, the sanitation often left me to feel like the film to deal with such serious topics irresponsibly.

But at the same time, "locked" is a pretty frivolous movie (complimentary), with over-the-view violence and a few scenes of shocking graphic nations that will quickly remind the audience that this is a production of Sam Raimi. Here the film really collects steam, with a frightening scene in a chase featuring William Remote, controlling the car to hunt for Eddie's young daughter on the way home from a school serving as a stand-long part of the whole movie. The tension is so effective that you forget that the moment before, we had to hear Hopkins arming the word "activated".

If the film accepts its gonzo more and fully devoted itself to the political exploitation of satire, this could have the potential to be a hit of sleep. As far as it hurts to say that, "locked" feels predisposed to be a future recipient of the movie article titled "This forgotten thriller of 2025 finds a new life on Netflix" (Like this), although it is, all things considered, pretty fun film time.

"Locked" lives and dies of the captured car was Scarsgard and Anthony Hopkins' stunning voice over the speakers of the vehicle, and it is obvious that the two have an absolute explosion. In particular, William at Hopkins sounds like he has a real day on the ground, to attract Eddie to Scarsgard at any time he missed the F-Bomb, and Scarsgard, without effort, convinces the audience that he is a wrong move of being killed all the time. When Hopkins finally appeared in the meat, it is a welcome reminder that not only is he one of the best he has ever done, but being a few years shy of 90 has not slowed him a little.

But strange, the tension of the film is slightly undermined by how difficult it is to connect to William. While Eddie is, on paper, the one in the "wrong" to break into the car, in the current American climate, is impossible to see as something other than the victim. William is the epitome of rich old people who complain of the neighborhood that is changing the next time, and even when it is revealed that he has suffered a tragic loss in the hands of criminals who have gone unpunished, it's hard not to think: "Old people will really turn the expensive car into a" trap "? At least with a jigsaw puzzle, we understood his crimes to be the last effort. is the real enemy, decided to do it Everyone He thinks he is smaller than a personal problem. And there lies the true power of "locked".

Aren't we just "poor people stuck in the rich man's careless car without control over our environment" of life?

/Movie rating: 4 out of 10

"Locked" opens in theaters on March 21, 2025.