I think that most of the budget on this one went on engaging Anthony Hopkins, well, his voice anyway (until the last 10 minutes). He's a rich bloke who has this car which he can totally remotely control and is built like a tank. He leaves it in a carpark in a rough area of town with the door unlocked, goading some petty thief to get in and try to nick it or its contents. Which, spookily enough, is just what happens.
He then terrorises the thief by not letting him out, depriving him of food and water, zapping him with taser-equipped panels and seats as he tries to teach the yob life lessons around actions having consequences. He tries and tries to find ways out of the car but can't. He even has a gun and it won't break through - he merely ends up injuring himself with it.
Hopkins' character is clearly a fruitloop who we find out later has cancer, has faced trauma of his own and is prepared to behave anarchically on his way out. He doesn't care what he does to whom and uses his remote control car in order to do much of that.
Bill Skarsgård plays the trapped (Locked) chappie down on his luck, thieving from people in order to try to turn his life around, with a wife who has thrown him out and daughter who he keeps letting down - mainly because he is poor and can't get up on his feet. We see him trying, but circumstances are against him.
So it's a bit of a thrill ride, wondering what on earth William (Hopkins' character) will do next as he talks to him via the car's phone, teasing, abusing. It's a hugely dialogue-driven film, survival story, revenge tale which keeps the viewer entertained and on their toes.
It's all a bit extreme - hard to imagine that there really isn't a way out of this vehicle. I would be all for ripping out the dashboard between being zapped of course! It's fairly well shot, a lot of it dark and certainly claustrophobic. Moving at times as the stories of the two men unfold - and a fairly bonkers finale! Enjoy the ride!
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