Locke is a miniature masterpiece. It's only 85 minutes long, there's only one character on screen (Ivan Locke, played by Tom Hardy), and essentially only one set: the interior of Locke's BMW. You won't be able to take your eyes off it.
The storyline is deceptively simple. Locke breaks away from an important business assignment to look after a personal crisis, the nature of which gradually becomes clear. As he drives in the dark toward London, making and taking an endless succession of phone calls, both his personal and professional lives come unraveled.
It's been quietly mentioned as an Oscar wild card, and I suppose there's always the possibility of a Hollywood remake. But if you wait for that you'll miss Tom Hardy's gentle and melancholy Welsh accent, which adds greatly to the pathos of the unfolding drama.
It's just become available on DVD. See this movie!
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