Describing a film as Tom Hardy talking on the phone for 90 minutes while driving isn’t exactly riveting. (Also, it’s a potential safety violation — eyes on the road, Hardy!) But in the capable hands of Steven Knight, it’s positively thrilling. The movie was filmed as a series of takes, with Hardy making real phone calls to actors who were together in a hotel room.
And there’s an immediacy that goes beyond its real-time trappings; Hardy is so wonderful and emotive in the role that you can’t help but be totally gripped. And “Locke’s” central mystery is both smaller and yet more heartbreaking than you could have imagined. Whew, what a movie.
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