Looneymanthegreat's Movie Review of Locke

Rating of
4/4

Locke

Fantastically Acted and Perfectly Realised
Looneymanthegreat - wrote on 05/31/14

One would think that watching a guy drive down a freeway for eight-five minutes would get boring fast, but Locke is a thriller that keeps you on the edge of your seat, and uses it’s limiting claustrophobic setting to its advantage.

The movie is almost completely a one man show by Tom Hardy. Without his strong leading performance this movie would be total crap. He character is strong and confident in the face of emotionally charged events, and does what he thinks is right despite what everyone around him says. Tom Hardy inhabits his character perfectly.

Of course it wouldn’t matter how well acted this strange movie was if it wasn’t for the writing and direction, and they’re both spot on here. Locke as a character is fully realized, the movie is totally bent on this one character and his life and motivations, but boy do they get him perfect. Locke is as close to a fully realized person as a movie that’s les then ninety minutes long can create. The director does a really good job of making sure that we see Locke’s struggle, and does a great job of making sure we don’t get bored of looking at the inside of the same car over and over again by using ever angle freaking imaginable.

Locke is my favorite film of 2014 so far and is worth seeing if it’s showing at a theater anywhere near you I’d say it’s worth the drive. I drove almost an hour to a theater that was showing this flick and I wasn’t disappointed in the slightest; I can’t imagine anybody would be.

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memento_mori - wrote on 06/01/14 at 08:22 AM CT

Locke Review comment

Nice review, glad to hear it has such a great reception already. Can't wait to watch it!

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