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Many may think that the best thing about the movie “Locked” is the trailer. No, friends. The best thing about the movie “Locked” is the poster. In other words, I warned you.

So, a guy in a pink shirt and yellow hair makes a living by stealing small items that are poorly secured. One day, he found an SUV poorly secured in a yard, climbed in, and couldn't get out. And it wasn't because a rabbit and a piglet were treating him to jam and condensed milk.

The owner quickly gets in touch with our hero through a speaker and, with the voice of Anthony Hopkins, tells the thief what to do, while watching him on video. Instead of respectfully asking to be let out, Skarsgård starts cursing the car owner. For this, he immediately receives an electric shock from a stun gun sewn into the seat, and Hopkins begins to patiently explain his views on morality and ethics to his guest.
Such explanations make Billy's butt cold, and it's already been shocked. But don't worry, her temperature will soon match that of the rest of Skarsgård, as the remote car owner starts turning up the climate control, forcing our lanky Swedish boy to get dressed, then undressed, and so on. No sympathy for the man at all — does he even realize how uncomfortable it is to change clothes in a car when you have such long legs?

Honestly, the plot would have benefited greatly if it turned out that the mysterious car was now taking Bill to some wild New York bachelorette party. But no, the most exciting thing we see is the yodel you heard in the trailer. And so the film goes on, with Skarsgård tormented by the lack of Narzan, yodeling, and climate control. Hopkins shares his views on the world while simultaneously attempting to take the lives and health of some unfortunate fellow citizens.

Wait, we've seen something like this before. Oh yes, it's the heretical detective story, or rather, the hermetic “Heretic.” In “The Heretic,” Hugh Grant is convinced that he has shaken the foundations of religious dogma with his naive reasoning. In Locked, Hopkins' views are not particularly fresh either. To make us believe it more, a splash screen with a goddess of justice and the inscription Dolus appears on the control screen as the name of a non-existent car brand. Obviously, they are counting on everyone to Google it. I'll spare you the trouble: Dolus is Latin for “trickery.” It's just a shame that the characters in the film and their conflicts are no more vivid than the Latin itself. Even the attempt to “connect” the viewer to the characters by telling stories about their family history doesn't pull the story together.

Towards the end of films like this, there is always a moment of brief unity between the hero and the antagonist. It happens here too. I don't want to say where. Even in films like Furiosa and The Heretic, there was room for one good monologue that erased the differences between the hero and the villain. But the problem with Locked is that if you don't care about each of the characters individually, then you care even less about their moment of unity. So the ending, despite all its pathos, leaves us completely indifferent to the fate of both.