Locked Down (2021)

"Making a heist film about the well-off during a pandemic is absolutely ludicrous."

"Years from now, when you speak of Locked Down - and you won’t - be kind."

"A bewildering mess..."

"Locked Down is almost worse than a lockdown..."

"(An) irritating heist comedy."

"Slapdash..."

"This movie would be DOA without Ejiofor and Hathaway’s romantically volatile chemistry."

"We could use a pandemic-era romantic comedy, but Locked Down isn't it..."

"It feels stagy, claustrophobic, and overacted."

"Locked Down ultimately is a love story and a good one too."

"The script... piles cliches and stereotypes atop ludicrously rickety plotting..."

"Must have seemed like quite the wheeze when greenlit, but now has all the appetising novelty of your eighth Zoom of the day."

"(Locked Down) is part romantic drama, part heist caper, and has the entertainment value of neither..."

"The film deserves total lockdown, preferably in a steel vault, somewhere deep underground."

"An overwritten, underplayed and nauseating mistake..."

"It's far too dry and meandering for an entertaining bit of fluff, but delirious enough to capture the mood of the moment."

"Torturous misfire..."

"Supremely annoying."

"Had the filmmakers taken a more easygoing approach, Locked Down might have landed in the realm of The Thomas Crown Affair."

"A crushing miscalculation on every level..."

"Hathaway’s comic timing has become a marvel in recent years, but Ejiofor, too, exults in the chance to throw off his usual gravity."

"I’m wary in general of making any definitive pronouncements about Locked Down, whose charms and irritations (and it has its share of both) are largely a matter of timing and perspective."

"Mildly watchable..."

"Maybe this all works, accidentally or not, as a time capsule of very contemporary irritation."

"COVID-19 serves as a fitting backdrop for an amiable romp about the freedoms we take for granted..."

"At times, generates an uneasy mixture of intimacy and showiness, yet it’s a kick to watch a couple of actors who are this terrific pull out all the stops."