LOCKED (2025) Review
Directed by David Yarovesky
While being more popular with characters that make his facial features unnoticeable, Bill Skarsgard proves that he doesn’t need makeup or prosthetics to portray a financially unstable father trying to make ends meet day by day.
It started dramatically, but as the story progresses, the story takes Bill’s character Eddie to extreme challenges, portrayed appropriately.
Even with just his voice, Sir Anthony Hopkins is terrifying by how he could corner Eddie through threats and physical pain from afar. You’ll antagonize him even without a face. But I kinda also feel he’s underused a bit. I wanted to see more of how evil he can be.
Calling it an edge-of-your-seat thriller may be an understatement. Because when the story is about survival inside a deadly luxury car, you’ll feel like you’re in a 4D movie – every rush, every bump and every pain the film presents go beyond the corners of the screen.
‘Locked’ is a slick suspense thriller that offers fewer visuals but manages to feel big. It might not have squeezed every possibility it can explore, but the end product is still entertaining and at times excruciating in a good way.
3.5 OUT OF 5 STARS
‘Locked’ is now showing in cinemas nationwide from Viva International Pictures. Rated R-13 by the MTRCB.