Locked Down: Anne Hathaway's Covid rom-com's biggest heist is on the audience
Instead, we’re offered up a tale of two halves – a Richard Curtis-esque rom-com that then rather noisily segues into a strange heist movie set in Harrods. The latter ends up feeling like a giant ad for the department store, the “background artists” actual employees, due to Covid filming conditions. That part at least shakes the story out of a growing torpor, as the fitfully funny antics of Anne Hathaway and Chiwetel Ejiofor’s bickering, barely civil couple raging against each other and their confinement starts to shift levels of annoyance, from mildly irritating to seriously grat...