Locked (You kids like these things, eh?)

PR: We're shortly shown the life of Eddie (Or "Ethieh" like the antagonist calls him) which simply put, sucks. Now, everyone's life suck in some greater or lesser degree, but at least most of us don't owe two years of divorce alimony and child support of a child that's not even ours (educated guess), or, even if we do, we don't ALSO owe money to like, half the town. In the middle of this desperation for getting cash to fix the van to work as a... Uber eats? Some sort of delivery gig, he sees this sparkling custom luxury SUV in the middle of the public parking lot. Now, where I live, if you own a car that's worth even half of what that thing's worth, you get a private garage. I'm not saying it's right or wrong, I'm just saying how it is, and this is a good neighborhood I live in, not that Bronx thing like in the movie. Well, as anyone who's seen the cover knows, the car's a trap. I gotta say, I'm kind of underwhelmed by the trap car, it's basically just your typical bullet-proof, sound-proof prison with a nicer view and comfier bed. If anything, teaser shots aside (that I don't even know how they work with the leather sit covers) the trap car is a significant upgrade from whatever Eddie had going on. 

Well, the movie goes on what I can summarize as old man dude representing the wealthier people and Eddie representing the outcasts, homeless and otherwise exploited laborers. "We earned what we have and we deserve to feel safe" claims old man, "No, you're silver spoon scum, what would you know about the struggle" says Eddie, "Go collect you government issued social security check, you Jigga... Err, I mean, you Caucasian cis male!" says old man, etc, etc. It is a bit suspicious that Eddie is the only white in the entire zone, but I'm not commenting on that. 

For those of you that don't know, this is how the average bronx low-life looks like. Blonde, blue eyed, clean, shaved, light-skinned young man in a pink hoodie.

Other stuff comes up, such as higher education vs self taught/homeschooled, older generations vs the young, but you get the gist of it. At some point Old man remote pilots the car which to the point I had assumed without engine (because why would you put an engine to your trap car) and he runs over a couple gangsters, which was pretty fun. Then he almost runs over Eddie's step-daughter, which wasn't so fun. Mostly perplexing, like, weren't you all about not randomly murdering other's people family? But maybe its the eye for an eye kind of reasoning. 

The movie was hard to predict, it ends with old man on the car (he had to go in person due Eddie breaking the cameras) on his way to execute Eddie, but he pulls some switch that kills the power of the car in a so called "street-smarts" move, making them both fly out the cliff and crashing in the rocks way down. I think I prefer regular smarts, no street smarts for me, thanks. 

It is of note that the old man was already going to die in three months' time due to prostate cancer, so "eye for an eye" wouldn't apply here. Other thing I want to point out is the hypocrecy of the old man when he pulls a glock and ironically comments "you kids like these things, eh?" when his generation caused not one but two world wars and crimes against humanity too long to even be listed.

He survives, miraculously, and we move onto the happy ending. Now this happy ending leaves aside that the reason why Eddie ends up trying to rob the old man remain unresolved but to be fair we never cared too much about the guy. 

Despite the socio-economical debate not really being my thing, and the movie's budget having been completely drained after the custom SUV and hiring old dude, the movie is enjoyable. Forgettable, but entertaining.