Locked Down (2021)

If you enjoy reading my Spoiler-Free reviews, please follow my blog @ https://www.msbreviews.com Watching a film set during a global pandemic while actually going through a global pandemic can have a significant negative impact on the viewer, depending on how the latter feels about the real-life problem. Honestly, my expectations were pretty low, but Locked Down is one of the most pleasant surprises I've had the luck of coming across in the last few months. Steven Knight's screenplay is humorously clever, packed with jokes about humanity's silliest behaviors during a lockdown. From the…

Horrendous. I am so sick of this terrible lockdown films, trying to make light of the last year.

misubisu

4.0

Jan 13, 2026

### **Review: *Locked Down (2021)*** **Score: 4/10** *Locked Down* is a fascinating cinematic artefact—a film so inextricably bound to the moment of its creation that it feels less like a movie and more like a high-concept, celebrity-stuffed time capsule. Directed by Doug Liman and penned by Steven Knight, it follows a London couple (Anne Hathaway and Chiwetel Ejiofor) on the brink of separation, whose pandemic-induced lockdown malaise turns into a plan to execute a high-stakes diamond heist. Despite the immense talent involved, the film is a tonally chaotic, self-conscious oddity that e…