Make no mistake this is a gimmick movie: there is only one - set the car, one actor - Tom Hardy, and all the drama happens over the phone. This will not be a movie for everyone. It needs to have a good story and create drama from nothing more than phone conversations. In my opinion this movie succeeds in leaps and bounds. The run time was 84 minutes and the time did fly by as I became fully engrossed in Locke's life as the decisions he made completely affect everything in his life for the 1 hour drive he is on.
His life becomes completely changed as the drive goes on. We get very intimate incites into his life, character, and person throughout the drive. I will admit I became fully engrossed in his life and conversations as the movie and drive progressed. I wanted to know what was going to happen and how his choices were going to affect the people, his job, and himself. I had no idea where the screenplay was going and the conversation he had with the many people in the movie had a real quality to them as it contained the pauses, repeated words, phrases, or sentences that seem to be in real life. They all gave it a very intimate, invading this characters life kind of feel.
This movie from the direction standpoint had an Alfred Hitchcock kind of tone, though I felt the movie would have been better if the camera had never left the car thus forces the viewer into world even more. When it leaves the car it kind of gives the viewer a little relief. I think it needed to keep us inside the car the whole time by doing this I think it would have even helped the viewer to empathize even more with Locke.
Tom Hardy does some of the best acting of his career as he creates a person with ticks and mannerisms that help to flesh out his character as the movie and drive go on. The way he plays with his sleeves or rubs his beard all help to make Locke a fully fleshed out character.
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