November 29, 2014If you've ever wondered what it would be like to watch someone driving for an hour and a half, this is your movie. 'Locke' attempts to be as minimalist as possible by having Tom Hardy drive and answer the phone and call people and drive some more for the entire movie. It succeeds at being minimalist, and it also succeeds at being incredibly boring. The story was compelling enough that I watched the whole movie, and I can only imagine that is due to Tom Hardy being a very good actor (although his Irish accent was not believable at all). Hardy plays a construction supervisor on the eve of the biggest concrete pour of his life (although his numbers don't make sense, which makes it seem like he doesn't know anything about concrete) when he gets a phone call from the woman he slept with several months ago saying she is now in labor. He decides to do the right thing and be with her when his child is born, so he drives for a couple hours and the entire movie is his drive. He calls his wife and tells her the bad news and she understandably freaks out. He gets called by his supervisor who fires him for leaving at such a critical point in their operations. He keeps making phone calls. Nothing exciting ever happens. I can't recommend this movie.
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