What is Locked In about? Netflix movie explained

❘ Published: 2023-11-07T12:12:02

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A new romantic thriller has climbed the Netflix top 10 chart: Locked In, so here’s what it’s about, who’s in the cast, and if it’s worth watching.

With the spooky season over and Christmas fast approaching, November marked some major additions to the streaming platform. While familiar favorites like Whiplash and Paul Blart: Mall Cop were added to the platform, another HBO hit arrived: Six Feet Under, joining Band of Brothers, The Pacific, and Ballers.

That’s not all: while not connecting with critics, Shawn Levy’s All the Light We Cannot See was Netflix’s biggest release of last week, and it also came before Blue Eye Samurai, NYAD, Sly, and Escaping Twin Flames.

As millions hunker down for cozy movie nights, they’ll inevitably be perusing the streamer’s chart – and you may have noticed Locked In, so here’s what you need to know.

What is Locked In about?

Locked In follows a nurse who uncovers a “twisted murder plot” while investigating how her paralyzed patient ended up in hospital.

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As per Tudum, the synopsis reads: “Katherine, a former Hollywood actor, wakes up in the hospital unable to move. She’s been hit by a car and suffers from locked-in syndrome — her eyes are the only thing she’s able to move. Through her nurse, Nicky, we find out what’s led to Katherine’s hospitalization.

Katherine, communicating with her via letter board, blinks when Nicky reads the correct letter: She claims there’s been a murder. Through flashbacks, we see snapshots of Katherine’s life just after she adopts her late best friend’s daughter, Lina. Lina idolizes Katherine and quickly becomes close with her chronically ill son, Jamie.

Later, Lina and Jamie get married — much to Katherine’s dismay, as Jamie is the heir to his late father’s manor, where they all live. As Lina and Katherine’s relationship deteriorates, Lina bonds with Jamie’s doctor, Robert, and tragedies befall Katherine’s family. “

Locked In cast: Who’s in it?

The Locked In cast includes:

Famke Janssen as Katherine
Rose Williams as Lina
Finn Cole as Jamie
Alex Hassel as Dr. Robert Lawrence
Anna Friel as Nicky Mackenzie

Janssen is the biggest star of the bunch, having appeared in the 007 franchise as Xenia Onatopp in GoldenEye, as well as playing Jean Grey in the X-Men movies. She’s also had roles in the Taken trilogy, Nip/Tuck, Hemlock Grove, and The Blacklist.

The film is directed by Nour Wazzi, who earlier worked on The Last Bus, Murder Manual, and The Break.

Is Locked In worth watching?

Locked In doesn’t have a Rotten Tomatoes score – but the reception so far has been decidedly mixed, if not generally negative.

The only positive review comes from Ready Steady Cut, which wrote in its three-star review: “Locked In is the type of made-for-TV thriller you’d expect to catch on Lifetime on a Friday night. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. It’s got a great cast, an easy-to-follow yet engaging story, a thrilling atmosphere, and a soothingly predictable plot; the perfect guilty pleasure.”

However, The Guardian’s review called it “overstretched and underbaked… aping the format and tease of a novel that you just can’t bear to put down, Locked In is instead a film you wish you would have stopped far earlier.”

Movie Nation also wrote: “Locked In struck me as one blown opportunity after another… the climax is so anti-climactic that twists or no twists, it just leaves the viewer frustrated that we didn’t get a tale of rising suspense, rising stakes and increasing peril instead of the movie they chose to muddle out of this promising premise.”

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