When the title matches my feelings of being trapped in this movie’s lugubrious pace. Another hour and change to go and I wanted to blink myself out of this this flick… but I also slam my finger in car doors for fun so here we are… locked right into a tired, obvious joke.

Locked In stars Famke Janssen (good for her) as a fading movie star (uh oh) who has an accident and is locked in, unable to move or anyone what happened. And since 90% of the movie is flashbacks, we now have a mystery.

A very slow and very tedious mystery… and one without an abundance of red herrings. Just a lot of “oh, I guess X must have done it because Y” and then “Oh, I guess it wasn’t X… then maybe Z” and then they run out of letters to assign and we finally stumble to an ending.

And it takes forever to wade through this not very interested but certainly sordid little story. I guess there’s some good thriller bits to round out the revelations at the end. It kind of prop up the movie ever so slightly.

I think the idea is good but the B movie plot doesn’t behave like a B movie should. If this movie weren’t so self-serious and actually played with its melodrama, it might have been interesting. Might have had a pace this side of glacial. Be better by being worse… leaning into the premise more.

Score: 65