Locked is a claustrophobic thriller that traps its audience inside a luxury SUV alongside a desperate man who made one bad choice too many. When Eddie, played by Bill Skarsgård, breaks into what he thinks is an empty car, he finds himself caught in a high-tech trap orchestrated by William, a wealthy doctor with a vendetta and a terminal diagnosis. What follows is a tense and disturbing cat-and-mouse game where justice, punishment and survival blur together in uncomfortable ways. With Anthony Hopkins voicing the dispassionate tormentor, the film becomes a slow-burn battle of wills played out in real time.
Anchored almost entirely by Skarsgård's intense performance, Locked builds its tension on physical confinement and psychological breakdown. The script plays with shifting power dynamics as Eddie tries to stay alive, appeal to reason and eventually fight back against his captor. While the premise is stretched to its limits, the film manages to hold together thanks to the strength of its two leads and its unsettling atmosphere. It's a compact, morally murky thriller that makes the most of its limited setting and cast.
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