Locked (film)

Locked is a 2025 American thriller film directed by David Yarovesky and starring Bill Skarsgård and Anthony Hopkins. It is an English-language remake of the Argentinian 2019 action film 4x4.
The plot follows a young, flippant carjacker who becomes trapped in a heavily modified car by a mysterious sociopath, who intends to teach him the "consequences" of his lifestyle.
Locked was released in the United States on March 21, 2025, by The Avenue.
Unable to afford to repair his van, Eddie Barrish cannot pick up his daughter, Sarah, from school. Desperate, he steals a mechanic's wallet and buys lottery tickets, makes fruitless calls to borrow money, and searches for unattended cars to rob. Apologizing to Sarah over the phone, he comes across an unlocked 'Dolus' luxury SUV, but only finds a pair of sunglasses to steal. When he tries to leave, the vehicle is now locked, trapping him inside.
The car receives a call, which Eddie ignores as he struggles to escape, cutting his arm in the process and discovering his phone has no signal. He finally answers the call from William, the car's owner, who shocks him with tasers built into the seats. Watching Eddie through cameras hidden througout the car, William explains that he had the Dolus built as an elaborate trap after six previous break-ins.
Taking out his gun, Eddie shoots at the bulletproof glass but the shot ricochets into his leg, and the car is too darkly tinted and soundproofed for passersby to notice his cries for help. Demanding conversation, William reveals he is a wealthy doctor, but a badly bleeding Eddie passes out. Night falls, and Eddie awakens to find his wounds have been treated, but he is still trapped alone in the car.
The following day, the foul-mouthed Eddie refuses to listen as William talks about his own daughter Emma, and is tormented with shocks, freezing air conditioning, and yodeling music. By nightfall, Eddie apologizes for cursing and William relents, and Eddie realizes his captor is calling from the balcony of his condo nearby. With terminal cancer and only months to live, William has taken it upon himself to deliver his own justice. He offers to let Eddie go if he can prove breaking into the Dolus is his first offense, and subjects him to punishing heat.
Starving and dehydrated, Eddie surrenders his personal information, and William turns off the heat and directs him to a bottle of water. Scratching off his last lottery ticket, Eddie discovers he actually won the money he needed, and makes a heartfelt apology to William, who rewards him with a cookie in the glovebox. Eddie realizes he can access the car's electrical system below the glovebox, which the cameras cannot see as he attempts to reach the circuits with his foot.
The next day, a delirious Eddie resorts to drinking his own urine. That night, he believes he has managed to start the car, but William reveals he is piloting the Dolus remotely, sending Eddie careening through the city. Interrupting a pair of muggers, William ignores Eddie's pleas and crushes them to death with the car. The high-speed joyride ends when an abrupt stop knocks Eddie unconscious.
Awakening the next day to learn that William used his information to track down Sarah, Eddie is helpless as William attempts to run her over on her way home from school. Threatening to shoot himself and end William's game, Eddie pulls the trigger only to discover William unloaded the gun. Sarah is spared, but Eddie destroys the car's cameras and dashboard display, sending his daughter a farewell message.
William himself arrives to complete Eddie's punishment, cuffing him and reloading the gun. Allowing Eddie to smoke a final joint, William takes the wheel and drives them out of the city to kill Eddie and dispose of his body. He reveals that Emma was killed during a robbery, spurring him to carry out this plan, but Eddie succeeds in disconnecting the car's power. As the car tumbles off the road, the gun goes off and William is shot.
Eddie frees himself and attacks William, just as a call comes through from Sarah. Promising to pick her up from school, Eddie begs William to unlock the car as it catches fire, but William dies. Breaking through the smashed rear windshield, Eddie is rescued by a passing driver. He returns to the auto shop with his lottery winnings, but when the van will not be repaired in time, he buys a bike for Sarah instead, riding it to school and reuniting with his daughter.
The film is a remake of the Argentinian action thriller 4X4 for ZQ Entertainment and Raimi Productions with David Yarovesky as director and Ara Keshishian and Petr Jákl producing under their ZQ Entertainment banner, with Sam Raimi and Zainab Azizi producing for Raimi Productions. In February 2023, Anthony Hopkins and Glen Powell were attached to the project in acting roles. Later, it was revealed that Bill Skarsgård replaced Powell. In February 2025, it was revealed that Ashley Cartwright, Michael Eklund, and Navid Charkhi had also joined the cast.
Principal photography took place in Vancouver in late 2023.
The film was shown to accredited buyers in the Industry Selects program at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival on September 6, 2024.
The film's rights were bought by The Avenue. Locked was released on March 21, 2025 by The Avenue.
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 65% of 66 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5.9/10. The website's consensus reads: "Matching up Bill Skarsgård and Anthony Hopkins in a battle of wits, Locked is loaded with plenty of clever jolts even if it doesn't quite know where to park its story." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 45 out of 100, based on 10 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.