LOCKED DOWN TBC
FILM ★★☆☆☆
OUT 5 MARCH TBC CINEMAS
Shot in Britain during lockdown and scripted by Steven Knight (Dirty Pretty Things, Peaky Blinders), Doug Liman’s inconsequential romcom follows a married couple who undertake a heist to alleviate the tedium. Pandemic clichés mount, and it doesn’t help that Chiwetel Ejiofor’s ex-con delivery driver and Anne Hathaway’s CEO are hardly short of resources, making it inexplicable that they should risk everything. Yet the big issue is less plausibility than laughs, something Mindy Kaling, Stephen Merchant and Ben Stiller fail to generate in cameos that are literally phoned-in.