I liked the story. Tom hardy played a character that was an emotionally detached a$$. But could not help feeling sorry for. The film gets a passing grade ( Barely) but I think It would have been better if it were 30 to 45 minutes instead of a feature film

Who would have thought I could watch Tom Hardy take phone calls for 70 minutes? If I had been told that's what I would be doing, I wouldn't have watched, but it was riveting! Maybe because every woman I've ever known acted like these women in the movie. Maybe it was his cool demeanor that I could have never had under these stresses. Anyway, it was just fascinating to watch him handle it without yelling. My favorite part was the delivery of the last line of the movie. Can't tell you or they'll make me say this is a spoiler...

I expected a lot more from this movie. I love Tom, and the plot is good, but the final product lacks something. I caught myself doing other stuff, while the film went on, and I don't normally do that. I guess it's the setting. For more that an hour, we are confined in one vehicle - this is where everything happens. It's a bit boring, and the director couldn't or wouldn't find a way to enrich the scene more, as if the intention was for the viewer to concentrate on the dialogues only. But for a lot of instances, the conversations are boring. We don't have beautiful scenery to feast upon. We get to know Locke's qualities through conversations as good worker and responsible person, a lot more than we need to. The reason for me then, to write this review was the need to say that for everyone who had the experience to be or witness intimately the presence of the child like Locke was or fathered, then this movie hits a spot. But then, it is decided for most of the movie's duration what the verdict of the main protagonist's actions is, and we are not in suspense what he will do (the green color of the traffic light in the beginning of the movie, which is the same color of the shirt Locke's father wore - the trigger of everything), we already know, so I expected a journey with doubts and self examinations, a real journey to one's self.

For me, 90-minute movie is always a good sign and when it can show you much in those 90 minutes ... I love it. Tom Hardy in role of Ivan Locke, builder creator who goes for a ride of his life. Single actor in this movie is enough to make you feel comfortable for 84 minutes.I'm imagining Locke's ride on the highway as life, because life is crazy drive of both bad and good decisions, of which it depends on how fast we will drive and when we will turn right from that highway. This movie shows us great internal conflict of person who drives, professionalism and privacy, emotions and power, family and job.The only movie that I watched and it' similar to this one, is Phone Booth with Colin Farrell.The difference is that Ivan Locke is not in death danger and we don't feel fear, if he is gonna die or not.And I like that.Life is not Hollywood.I always respect scenes in movies which shows us real-life scenes. And this movie is full of it.This movie is full of great dialogues.Locke is really interesting personality.His determined stand, integrity, sincerity shows us how he is really strong, powerful men even when he has an outburst of rage, trying to prove to himself that he is better than his father.But, Locke is just one car on that highway.Locke is just another man with problems and decisions and at the end, he will get out from that highway. Straight nihilistic.9,5/10