Film Review – Locked In

Writer/director Carlos V. Gutierrez isn’t making life easy for himself with the setting for “Locked In,” which takes place inside of a storage facility during the dead of night. He’s not David Fincher, but he takes on a “Panic Room”-lite premise, following a desperate woman’s attempt to keep herself alive as thieves enter the building to collect a secret fortune. It’s a small production dealing with limited space and casting, and one would think such creative restraints would push Gutierrez to try as hard as a could to make the movie as breathless as possible, hitting viewers with pure suspense as bad ideas evolve into dead bodies over the course of the film. “Locked In” doesn’t arrive with that level of inspiration, instead taking the leisurely route to violence, with banal conversations, not games of survival, dominating the viewing experience. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com