08-10-14 11:30 – Source: Het Parool
Tom Hardy in ‘Locke’. © Het Parool
Review
A man, a car and a lot of phone calls: Tom Hardy impresses in ‘Locke’, as a man who seems to explode any moment. “Locke” is a character study of a man at a crossroads in his life
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Five years ago, screenwriter Chris Sparling, director Rodrigo Cortés and actor Ryan Reynolds the viewer share the hardships of a man who discovers that he is buried alive. It resulted in an oppressive cinematic, because ‘Buried’ is completely set in the chest and the man himself has to liberate. Using the mobile phone of the gravedigger from his predicament
Mobiles are a plague in the cinema, but ‘Buried’ and the new film ‘Locke’ show that filmmakers exclusively on a single character can focus without using. artifice thanks to mobile communication However, Locke is no unequivocal thriller, but a character study of a man at a crossroads in his life state and a series taking irreversible decisions during a long drive.
Frustration
It is a fascinating spectacle that is worn. by British actor Tom Hardy Scriptwriter and director Steven Knight makes clever use of Hardy’s powerful presence that gave him the look in films like ‘Warrior’ and ‘The Dark Knight Rises “from someone who is about to explode.
Ivan Locke, he will hear a series of bad news and the growing frustration and anger in those extremely strong hunk behind the wheel works well on the nerves.
Whether and when the bomb crack, let in the middle, because the biggest plus of Knights scenario is the way the motives and reactions of Locke and his interlocutors are revealed bit by bit. It could have resulted in a strong thriller but unlike the makers of ‘Buried’ Knight wants to leave no facet of his unnamed protagonist.
In addition, he plays his hand by Locke in angry monologues also with his deceased father to checkout; the imagined dad on the back detracts from the strong starting point. But Hardy’s action makes enough of an impression to the defect surmountable
(By: Bart van der Put).
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