Locked Down should have been an entertaining romp. Instead, viewers are treated to an exhausting and overlong film that feels like a 2-hour identity crisis. Locked Down tries to be several things: a relationship drama, a COVID-19 story, and a heist film. Unfortunately, it fails at all of these thanks to bizarre tonal shifts and endless monologues about pandemic life. Ejiofor and Hathaway are given long, meaty monologues about their struggles, which they tear into with passion and capital-A acting. Paxton struggles with overcoming his reckless criminal past and maintaining sobriety after a heroin addiction, which has held him back from success. Meanwhile, Linda has climbed the corporate ladder to success, only to find that it is destroying her soul.