2013 Directed by Steven Knight
Ivan Locke has worked hard to craft a good life for himself. Tonight, that life will collapse around him. On the eve of the biggest challenge of his career, Ivan receives a phone call that sets in motion a series of events that will unravel his family, job, and soul.
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as someone who hates driving AND confrontation, this movie is classified under "horror" for me
Locke is a single location film that takes place in real time. If ever there was a recipe for disaster it is with this type of film. It is unbelievably difficult to get right. More often than not films like this fail because of the constraints their own setting enforces upon them.
Locke understands this very well and does what it should do. Keep it simple. The plot is straightforward and related to us through phone calls and internal conversations Locke has with his dead father. We are presented with a calm and collected man who, at the beginning of the film, after some consideration decides to go right instead of left. He is going on a long drive and…
wow
only in this movie ivan locke has recieve more calls than me in the past 7 years
Tom Hardy’s Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Concrete (But Were Afraid to Ask).
after watching this i've come to a sudden realization that
we are all tom hardy stans first and human beings second
I rarely will declare a rating right after I watch a film. Usually, I’ll log it, and let it drift around my subconscious for a day or more, and then usually not until I’ve thoroughly thought it through while compositing a review. Not Locke. I knew I considered it a masterpiece right away, and worthy of a full five stars.
Two handers are difficult to pull off, and that was only emphasized even further to me during my recent viewing of Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay’s performances in Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years. The success was the subtle depth that lurked beneath the banal that was encoded in the script, and perfectly realized by two experienced veterans at the peak of…
Steven Knight has made a career of placing sedentary people in crisis. Cinephiles may know him as an English screenwriter with a penchant for crime dramas about Europe’s underbelly (Dirty Pretty Things, Eastern Promises), but Knight’s real claim to fame—and certainly his claim to fortune—is that he created the original Who Wants To Be A Millionaire for British television. After making his directorial debut with 2013’s unusually sober Jason Statham vehicle Redemption, Knight has written the perfect vehicle for himself in Locke: a taut, stomach-turning morality play on wheels about a man sitting in the ultimate hot seat, slowly exhausting his lifelines until he’s utterly alone.
Ivan Locke (Tom Hardy) is having the worst night of his life. A wealthy…
