"Locked In" is a flat melodrama with a curious mix of characters. It is revealed that the kind father was on the inside of a heist at the Kentucky Derby. The stolen money buried in the barn of his farm becomes the subject of a mad scramble for who can recover the loot. And the screenplay is so sloppy that it is never even clear who walks away with the cash!!!
The most troubling character is young Taylor, the daughter of the thief and the sensitive mother Ann-Marie. The mom has become agoraphobic after the death of her husband. Locked in the family home, Ann-Marie has become a pill-popper living in ignorance of the bad deed of her late husband, as well as the secret discovered by her amoral daughter.
After Taylor comes across the buried bundle of cash, the race is on to see who can keep the loot. After a prison break, Draven comes looking for the cash, killing the local pastor, the kind neighbor Francis, and the incompetent local sheriff. It all comes down to an agoraphobic mother's love of her money-grubbing daughter to save the day, especially when Taylor's horse injection fails to anesthetize Draven.
Along with the reclusive Ann-Marie, the dim-witted boyfriend Blake is the only honest character in the film. Blake so whipped on Taylor that he goes along with her plan to try to keep the money.
Overall, this was only an average Lifetime film that had little suspense or redeeming values. The action scenes in which men and women are fighting in close quarters with an enormous, unwieldy rifle were especially unconvincing. And, by the way, who got the stash of cash?
The most troubling character is young Taylor, the daughter of the thief and the sensitive mother Ann-Marie. The mom has become agoraphobic after the death of her husband. Locked in the family home, Ann-Marie has become a pill-popper living in ignorance of the bad deed of her late husband, as well as the secret discovered by her amoral daughter.
After Taylor comes across the buried bundle of cash, the race is on to see who can keep the loot. After a prison break, Draven comes looking for the cash, killing the local pastor, the kind neighbor Francis, and the incompetent local sheriff. It all comes down to an agoraphobic mother's love of her money-grubbing daughter to save the day, especially when Taylor's horse injection fails to anesthetize Draven.
Along with the reclusive Ann-Marie, the dim-witted boyfriend Blake is the only honest character in the film. Blake so whipped on Taylor that he goes along with her plan to try to keep the money.
Overall, this was only an average Lifetime film that had little suspense or redeeming values. The action scenes in which men and women are fighting in close quarters with an enormous, unwieldy rifle were especially unconvincing. And, by the way, who got the stash of cash?
