Locked Down

2021 Directed by Doug Liman

Some people unravel faster than others

During a COVID-19 lockdown, sparring couple Linda and Paxton call a truce to attempt a high-risk jewellery heist at one of the world's most exclusive department stores, Harrods.

Anne Hathaway Chiwetel Ejiofor Stephen Merchant Dulé Hill Jazmyn Simon Ben Kingsley Ben Stiller Mindy Kaling Lucy Boynton Mark Gatiss Claes Bang Sam Spruell Frances Ruffelle Bobby Schofield Tallulah Greive Katie Leung Eva Röse Mark Lisseman Anna Behne Alexandra Reimer-Duffy Marek Larwood Olivia Onyehara

Alternative Titles

Lockdown, 락다운, Карантин, Confinement

comedy crime drama

118 mins More details at IMDb TMDb Report this film

Popular reviews

Review by demi adejuyigbe 26

I knew it was gonna be a mistake to watch this, but I still did. Not because I thought it would be good or entertaining, but because I was curious and I thought it would be easy to watch. Which is why it got made- the Netflixification of media churns out project after project like this in service of “easy” entertainment, where the goal isn’t to make something good or truly entertaining, but to make something whose production is the entire headline: “It was made so quickly” “it’s about the times” “These famous people are in it” “Can you believe how they filmed this”– It’s not a movie they’re making, it’s a viral video. Their goal isn’t a lasting impression,…
Review by josh lewis ★ 5

a movie for people whose covid experience was the extreme emotional labor of getting wine drunk in their 2 million dollar homes and firing people over zoom. unbearable
Review by matt lynch ★ 2

This is a heist movie only in the sense that Doug Liman has essentially stolen both Warner's money to finance his jerkoff rich asshole COVID anxiety noodling and two hours of my time. Please Christ let me never see another Zoom call in a movie ever again, why does any director think this acceptable or interesting?
Review by Ayo Edebiri 3

I don’t think commercial movies about covid ):
Should be being made right now )):
It’s just........still happening.....
The movie was at its strongest when it was “wow wouldn’t pulling of a heist during a pandemic be crazy” (10% of the movie) and at its weakest when it was :) everything else ):
I dunno. Just didn’t hit the way I needed it to.
also no psych fan but Dulé Hill is one of the best comedic actors alive.
Review by davidehrlich ★★★ 6

“Locked Down,” the latest and least heightened entry in the emerging (and hopefully short-lived) sub-genre of films shot during COVID-19, opens with a sight that won’t make sense until a bit later: The fattest possible hedgehog bumbling through a London garden like it’s been lapping up cheap wine all day. A few minutes later, Doug Liman’s mostly fun rallying cry for the rush of living counters that odd start with a sight that immediately makes all the sense in the world: Anne Hathaway screaming her way into a movie that was made amid the worst pandemic in more than a century.
Some people just have to act, and Hathaway’s effective performance as a frazzled CEO who’s forced to quarantine with…
Review by justmiaslife ★★ 1

no proper thoughts except their house looked nice
Review by Alor ★ 5

genuinely never wanted to punch my computer screen this much in my entire life
Review by Owen ★★ 1

i would say "no more COVID-themed movies, society has progressed past the need for COVID-themed movies", but there was never a need for them to begin with (nor a want for them) so i'll just leave it at that
Review by Cam ★★½ 4

”Who’d have thought a month ago we’d be doing this?”
Everyone knows that one of the main elements of the perfect theft is timing. Sadly that’s exactly where this heist film goes wrong. It spends way too much time replicating nearly every COVID meme and zoom sketch you can think of, before finally setting it’s wheels in motion and gaining some momentum.
Which is a shame, because despite all that unfocused rambling, there’s actually a nifty little gem of a movie hidden in the second half.
BONUS POINTS for the use of Adam Ant’s Stand and Deliver which happily injected some much need energy and kicked off the narrative’s call to action.
”I’d be a millionaire,
and a bandito once again”

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Review by MadokaGirl15

the premise of this movie sounds like a Bojack Horseman gag ngl
Review by Austin Burke ★★ 5

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This is one of those films that doesn’t have much to it other than a semi-fun premise and great talent. A couple attempts a high-risk, high-stakes jewelry heist at a department store, and that couple is played by Anne Hathaway and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Both do a solid job, but the dialogue comes completely out of left field at times. We spent the entire first act attempting to build them up and give them a personality, but the film feels as if it is more focused on how many celebrity cameos they can shoehorn in via zoom meeting (you know, since it is during the pandemic and zoom is cool). It felt…
Review by JJRabbit ★★★ 1

London has the city on Lock,
So a couple is forced to take stock.
At the end of the day,
Anne Hath-a-way,
To walk away with a real or fake rock.

Recent reviews

Review by jenny ★½

hmm yeah this movie sucks but looking at anne hathaway and chiwetel ejiofor is never a bad experience i think
Review by westegg ½

no
Review by William Edward ★½

What the fuck is going on
Review by Kelly ½

The only good thing about this movie was the adorable hedgehog in the opening.
Review by Chogan ★

This is so fucking boring that I physically couldn't take it at points. I paused it for twenty minutes at multiple points because I was almost faking asleep, and I started it at two in the fucking afternoon. I wasn't even actually tired, it's just that this movie bored me into exhaustion.
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Review by cooleywhistles

My first logged film released in the year 2021...shame
Liiiiiisten, I'm lucky enough to not be affected that badly by this pandemic, I was fired months ago so I don't have to worry about a job, even money troubles aren't a problem cause I got something *ahem* bigger coming along the way; so I ain't against the idea of someone making a film set in the pandemic...but clearly this an example of why it can't really work.
This is much more of a talking heads film rather than a heist film, it entirely makes you forget that the director of The Bourne Identity and Edge of Tomorrow is behind this film and that his frequent collaborator John Powell did the…
Review by Tuomo95 ★★★

Fun movie eventhough too much of it is on Zoom. Also locked down seemed too be really free for main characters compared to the writer Steven Knight's other film Locke (2013).
Review by CombinedForces ★★½

IMDb: 5.2/ 10
Metacritic: 42
Rotten Tomatoes: 43%
Average Score: 46
Review by ivan ★★★

wasn't much of a quality, but it was fun
Review by chrishanna ★

Annie are you ok are you ok Annie
Review by arfa ★

i only stayed through this for anne hathaway i love u anne hathaway
Review by pep21 ½

Worst movie of the year. I could not understand anything they were saying and they didn't even wear masks. I could have written a better script than this. This just felt like a bunch of theater kid celebrities got together to make a movie for just them and forgot that real people will be watching it that don't give a fuck about their dumb, incoherent monologues. Worst heist movie ever there was no action and they were already rich and then they just got more money even though both of them had jobs and were not struggling with money whatsoever they just wanted more for fun and the acting was shit. Only fun thing about this movie was the gay girl at the beginning and anne hathaway is a bitch for ignoring her.