The Atlantic
Locked Down has the air of a homework assignment completed the morning it was due.
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Doug Liman has never shied away from big challenges. He’s directed genuinely great films such as
Swingers, Go, and
Edge of Tomorrow; he launched the Jason Bourne franchise; and he once re-edited and re-released his little-seen flop
Fair Game mostly for fun. For his next project, he’ll literally travel to space alongside Tom Cruise to film in orbit. So it’s no wonder that, a few months into the coronavirus pandemic, he decided to make a movie set in quarantine one of the first in what will surely be a long line of major Hollywood efforts to wrestle with the anxious realities of the current era.
Years from now, when you speak of “Locked Down” — and you won’t — be kind. The makers of this COVID-era rom-com heist picture gave it their all, shooting a
Doug Liman's "Locked Down," one of the first and most ambitious films to be conceived and shot during the pandemic, is like our own quarantine experiences
Doug Liman's “Locked Down,” one of the first and most ambitious films to be conceived and shot during the pandemic, is, like our own quarantine experiences,