![‘Locked Down’ Is Like A Pandemic Birthday Do-Over From Doug Liman We Should Pretend Never Happened [Review]](https://cooncel.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/locked-down-is-like-a-pandemic-birthday-do-over-from-doug-liman-we-should-pretend-never-happened-review_6002a3b2607fc.jpeg "‘Locked Down’ Is Like A Pandemic Birthday Do-Over From Doug Liman We Should Pretend Never Happened [Review]")
One of the first novel concepts introduced in Doug Liman’s tossed-off, super slight, and interminably paced “Locked Down” pandemic-set heist/relationship movie that tells you a little bit about the central couple’s status is the “confession avalanche.” The rather unpleasant Linda (Anne Hathaway) and disagreeable, perhaps vaguely mentally-unwell Paxton (Chiwetel Ejiofor) are weeks into the pandemic in London (circa April, at the height of people losing their minds), both are in the throes of existential self-annihilation and have decided to part ways after the COVID-19 epidemic is over. So, unhappy and exasperated, Linda often unleashes vomiting rants about what she no longer can stand about Paxton, and many a verbal melee erupts.