When Eddie breaks into a luxury SUV, he steps into a deadly trap set by William, a self-proclaimed vigilante delivering his own brand of twisted justice. With no means of escape, Eddie must fight to survive in a ride where escape is an illusion, survival is a nightmare, and justice shifts into high gear.
15 Sep Locked (2025)
Eye Outside
First, no value here; this comment is about a key technique, and setting aside my aversion to the acting stance that Hopkins has settled into.
I don’t think it quite earns the right to be a genre, but we do have ‘containment’ films, where the limits of confinement are the cinematic effect we depend on. It is very tricky because for practical reasons you need to place the camera outside the containing space, here an SUV.
Despite this being a stupid film, it has a very clever fold: in addition to us spying on our hapless doof, an in-film character is doing the same with cameras installed in the car. A better director could have made quite a bit by shifting between the two.
The real cameras always impress because they would have had to fabricate a car with removable sections, which limits the ability to move. A moving camera constrains by its movement (if a close in wide angle is used), so we could envelop our captive that way. But the practical limits intercede.
I recently saw ‘Superman’ which solved this by having a glass cage.
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