Steven Knight can have "Picki Rollers" and several other loved ones under his beltBut perhaps his most daring venture is a movie about a man in the car. As early as 2013, the writer/director paired with Tom Hardy for Locke, a drama with one person who is now considered one of the actor's best films so far and has A. The result of critics of 91% of rotten tomatoes. Going to a very different kind of Hurry Road, Hardy plays the title Ivan Locke, a manager of the construction site on the brink of the largest concrete spill in Europe. Faced with the biggest day of his career, Locke suddenly reveals that his life is falling apart when he learned that the work colleague had a short affair with a few months and was now working.

With a small choice besides giving up the job she is appointed, Locke rides from London to Birmingham over a night to ensure that he is present for birth. As he does, he is forced to engage in a series of heavy phone calls that include recognizing his act of infidelity of his wife, teaching his work colleague on how to manage the job (which he will surely be fired) and to put the sons of which he is forced to disappoint. What sets this catastrophic story out of others, however, is that the whole story takes place from Locke's car, and he is the only person we ever see on the second screen, he enters the driver's headquarters until the last exhausted, life -changing moment.

For Most of Tom Hardy's careerHe tends to play pretty fierce characters, especially in films like Bronson, Warrior, "Dark Knight" and "Crazy Max: Hughes Road". However, with Locke, Hardy is called to play a man who is unwaveringly reserved, even as he is on the edge. Having a single camera personality for the whole movie is nothing new, of course. In fact, there are Many great movies where an actor must bear his soul alone (or very soon so) up to two hours. However, few of them are pretty swinging to endure, as Lokdi's Locke tries to stay calm as he goes to his nightmares.

Accompanied by the sound of car passage and a rigid shine on the street lights on the highway, Knight's film somehow turns a series of phone calls for concrete and missed football matches in experience with nail biting. Locke is not an unstoppable super trainee or a dream man, he is just a guy trying to set things up and suffer from a pretty medium cold. Wurching his way through the story, Hardy was legitimately ill during filming (as he confirmed that Out in 2014), which Knight integrated into the film to better emphasize how much the actor's human character is. The other drug he is forced to take, however, comes from a collection of well -known voices on his phone, many of which belong to what are now quite massive stars.

Hardy can be the only person we see on the screen in Knight's film, but Locke has a great voice for the characters calling Ivan while making her hell. Among those joining Hardy for the ride are Olivia Coleman like Betan, the woman Ivan had an affair with, and Luther and the "affair" star Ruth Wilson as the wife of Lock Catrina, whose life is similarly turned upside down. On top of that, Locke may be the closest we will ever get to see Eddie Brock on Hardy and Peter Parker of Tom Holland, sharing the screen, as the last actor expresses Ivan's younger son, Eddie, who only hopes his father will make him at home.

Throw in a frantic twist from the Starweet "All of us Foreigners" and "Phlebag" Andrew Scott as Donald, Locke's second command on the desktop of which he moves away, and the movie on the Knight Road makes him a busy, brilliant watch. Whatever Knight manages with his scenario To develop Danny Vilnev's film, it is difficult to imagine that he will have a swift scene in a chase for 007 that will be as exciting as a cold hit in a worn sweater, trying to fight the sins of his past.