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HBO Max’s COVID Heist Rom-Com Has Too Much Rom-Com, Not Enough Heist – Slate
Is Locked Down any good? That’s complicated.
Its probably impossible to deliver a clearheaded verdict on one of the first movies set during the coronavirus pandemic while still living through that same crisis. History will have to judge whether Doug Limans Locked Down (premiering on HBO Max on Thursday), a romantic drama turned heist movie about an estranged London couple plotting a crime together in the early-COVID spring of 2020, is a good movie or not. I can only say that watching it from the point of view of a hostage of historythe position…
