How do you make a movie about a guy driving a car for an hour, talking on his cell phone, compelling? Well, you get Tom Hardy to lead and Steven Knight to write and direct it, and if you’re lucky enough, you wind up with something like “Locke.”
Minimal perhaps, but that doesn’t make the drama any less potent for this one, following the trials of a single man on a drive from Birmingham to London, putting his life in order with nothing more than determination and a mobile. And while Hardy is the only one on screen, that doesn’t mean the star wattage ends there, with Olivia Colman, Ruth Wilson, Tom Holland, Bill Milner, Ben Daniels and Andrew Scott all lending their support in voice roles on the other end of the line. And it adds up to quite a package with our review calling it, “a very impressive film.”
“Locke” opens on April 25th. Watch the new trailer below.
Looks so interesting & ambitious. Wow. All these incredible descriptive reviews, this is insane haha. I'm really wanting to see this the buzz is sooo high according to all the amazing positive reviews.
On the same note, I mean you cant go wrong with Brit Tom Hardy that's for dam sure. The writing must be near a freakin masterpiece for this to work as well as every1 is saying!
– And it's definitely an interesting choice acting wise/career wise for Tom Hardy to take….Very interesting
you guys should do a list of good and bad single location films when this comes out
Tom is such a brilliant actor. Whether it's Charles Bronson, Eames, Tommy Conlon, Ricki Tarr or Bane, Hardy always surprises me with his interesting choices and compelling screen presence.
Looks intriguing…
TOM HARDY – ALL SAID!
I'm so looking forward to this movie! Tom Hardy is such a compelling actor and this flick seems to be written by a good scriptwriter, so….YES!