Twelve production company logos for a movie starring two guys, one of whom is locked in an SUV for 90 minutes? All those logos can’t be be for the production value so are they for the budget? Because, again, two guys, one car. Maybe it’s to pay for Anthony Hopkins and Bill Skarsgård?

Skarsgård plays a petty crook who tries to steal the wrong car. Next thing he knows, he’s locked in with a cranky old man (Hopkins) on the car phone lecturing him about kids these days. Now extend that to 90 minutes, with sometimes auto-drive turned on.

A fine example of a problem of place movie… can the writer and director expand this trapped room story to fill ninety minutes? Not really… maybe it’d be cool at thirty but it tested my patience bigtime at feature length. Which isn’t to say it’s always boring, to be fair. The acting is solid and some the duh-du-du-duh thriller music keeps up the pace sometimes.

But otherwise? Dialog-wise, call it Boomer vs. Millennial, the preachy flag-waving message movie. Or, better yet, OK, Boomer: The Movie. Kids these Days: The Movie. Any of which will work as we have to listen to a preachy old crank and a young whipper-snapper argue.

Both actors did a fine job but is it wrong I kept thinking Skarsgård’s character should have been played by Pete Davidson? He can do a better dirtbag but maybe it’d be hard to get over his SNLness. Hopkins is fine playing a richer, older Hannibal genius type. But I got the sense he was rarely on set and most of his performance was literally phoned in.

The little girl playing Skarsgård’s daughter was cute in a button-nose kind of way.

This isn’t a terrible one of these Locked in A… type movies but it’s hardly one of the better ones either. I had limited patience for it and its attempts at generational preachiness. But it is, at least, watchable.

Score: 71