Unlocked

Unlocked 2017

• Director: Michael Apted
• Also seen by this director: Amazing Grace, The World Is Not Enough, Nell, Class Action, Stardust
• Based on the book: no
• Cast: Noomi Rapace, Toni Collette, Orlando Bloom, John Malkovich, Michael Douglas, Tosin Cole, Tom Reed
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Noomi Rapace – Rupture, Prometheus, Sherlock Holmes A Game of Shadows, Svinalängorna, Luftslottet som sprängdes, Flickan som lekte med Elden, Män som hatar kvinnor, Tusenbröder
• Toni Collette – Hereditary, Imperium, A Long Way Down, Mental, Fright Night, The Dead Girl, Night Listener, Little Miss Sunshine, In Her Shoes, The Hours, About a Boy, Hotel Splendide, Velvet Goldmine, Muriel’s Wedding
• Orlando Bloom – Pirates of the Caribbean, The Hobbit, Extras, Kingdom of Heaven, Lord of the Rings, Ned Kelly, Wilde
• John Malkovich – Burn After Reading, Colour Me Kubrick, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The Libertine, Johnny English, Jeanne D’Arc, Being John Malkovich, Mary Reilly
• Michael Douglas – Traffic, A Perfect Murder, A Chorus Line, The China Syndrome
• Tosin Cole – Doctor Who, Star Wars the Force Awakens
• Why? Collette and Rapace
• Seen: 5 July 2020      

       Alice (Rapace) and Emily (Collette) are friends and spies for the CIA and MI5. They’re recruited to stop an act of biological terrorism in London.

       For being a spy film it’s interesting and exciting. But then Rapace is Lisbeth Salander and Collette is Collette. Here she’s even Annie Lennox! Malkovich and Bloom add spice.

       A twist towards the end of the film adds an unpleasant eeriness that I don’t think the filmmakers intended. Sometimes reality and fiction coincide more than we’d like.

       Nevertheless, it’s one of the better spy films I’ve seen.

4 * of 5