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Coral

"D: Knight S: Tom Hardy"

I initially thought "They're doing another Dark Knight movie and Bane is the lead character?"

Solid Snake

Had to Wikipedia the director. He's the writer of Eastern Promises, seems like this is his debut film.

Oooooh.

Trailer isn't popping up for me at work. I'll check it out later.

TheStoicPaisano

It's Hardy and set solely in a car, so I'll give it a whirl. Not sure what accent he's going for, though.

Osiris3657

This reminds me alot of "Buried" with Ryan Reynolds. I liked Buried, but also thought it was overhyped.

Looking forward to seeing this.

Rex Power Colt-Robot Man

Who is this Jersey Shore tan needing boob who is all "Look, I'm a douche covered in tattoos! I'm so dangerous!"?

Why So Blu?

It's not his directorial debut. His debut was Redemption, with Jason Statham and that flick is excellent. It went on my Top-10 of last year.


Locke opened in limited release here in L.A.

Throwing Copper

This one is getting all kinds of buzz. Can't wait to see it if it every plays near me.

SPiRAL

I was at The Landmark in West LA and this was playing there. I was so tempted to see it, but saw Only Lovers Left Alive. It's been there for a min so wanted to catch it before it left. Locke, for sure next weekend.

Why So Blu?

Saw this today and it's definitely Top-10 material. 2014 is shaping up to be year of the badass indy flicks.

Under The Skin
Only Lovers Left Alive
Locke

Giles

well thank god this was only under 90 minutes - didn't get a lot of sleep last night, and I was struggling to keep awake during this, at least the popcorn helped ... somewhat. I nodded off ever so slightly near the end, what happened with Donal and the whole cementing project

Why So Blu?

Giles

aw gotcha - thanks.

TimeandTide

What did you like about it?

Saw it with my fiancé this weekend at the Arclight and we both hated it. We joked on the drive home from LA that a movie studio could have mounted a camera on any one of the cars we were passing on the 101 and gotten a story that was more interesting than the one we'd just watched. Hardy was disappointingly ho-hum, the female characters were paper-thin, Hardy's character was impossible to root for, the ending was groan-inducing, and the entire thing felt gimmicky, long (despite the short run-time), and dull.

Soundtrack was great, however.

bluetoast

I liked it. Didn't know the exact nature of the phone calls going in, so I expected some kind of Phone Booth shit, but this was good drama. And weird to see Silas Carson (i.e. random Star Wars PT characters) show up in the voice credits. Ruth Wilson was nice.

james2025a

I am not sure how i feel after seeing this movie. Part of me liked the pacing, the way it was filmed, certainly the soundtrack and the down to earthiness of the movie. However, at the same time i found it plodding, the story to be paper thin, the characters to be one dimensional, Hardys Welsh accent to be pretty bad, and the less said about the ending the better.

I guess i would say its an average movie at best that so badly wants to be seen as an Indie masterpiece. I was disappointed.

Osiris3657

I feel the same, saw it a couple days ago and keep flip flopping. One moment I'm thinking that was really solid, great performance by Hardy, good score, well shot, etc....then a minute later I'm thinking it was just a guy on the phone for 90 minutes, it wasn't that interesting.

I'll settle for somewhere in the middle. I gave it 3 out of 5 stars on Netflix.

dex14

I did not care for this. It put me to sleep. It was shot well, and the music was good, but the story is just shit. I'm supposed to care about concrete? I know that wasn't the gist of it... but overall it was not interesting. And Hardy's accent was so annoying to me.

RichC2

I wanted to like it more than I did

bootsy

Sounded like he had a stopped up nose the entire movie.

Say 'I don't have time for this' squeezing your nose. That's what he sounded like.

inri222

Saw it tonight and also gave it 3/5. Thought the first half was good but the "concept" eventually wore out its welcome and started becoming tedious, especially when the phone calls started drifting in all kinds of directions. This is the type of movie that relies a lot on the acting and script to carry it. The acting I thought was great, but the script was weak.

filmerp

He did (have a cold in real life). They just went with it.

bootsy

Didn't know that. Thanks.

Solid Snake

This is on Amazon Instant Video, free w/ prime.

OldBoy

thanks for this. been meaning to get to this and after watching him in the fantastic The Drop, look forward to this one.