The film is the English-language remake of4x4, an Argentinian thriller directed and co-written by Mariano Cohn.
Both4x4andLockedbegin with a similar set-up, although Ciro and Enrique prove to have different personalities than their American counterparts.
Lockedand4x4ultimately diverge in their endings, with both movies taking different moral tracts and concluding in very different manners.
By contrast,4x4takes on a more wide-scope perspective on society at large.
The result is two films that start in a similar place but end in very different tonal places.
However,Locked’s Eddie is a very different character than4x4’s Ciro.
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From the on-set,Eddie is portrayed in a somewhat sympathetic light.
Ricocheting off the bullet-proof windows, the bullet ends up hitting both Eddie and Ciro in the leg.
It also means the leg injury is more or less resolved as a plot beat.
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As a result,Ciro’s injury festers and becomes infected.
However, Ciro has a far rougher experience that is implied to last much longer.
Eddie’s torture inLockedis more fast-paced and mental, while Circo suffers a longer physical and mental torment through4x4.
He threatens Eddie’s daughter in a way that Enrique never endangers Ciro’s family.
William eventually reveals that his daughter, who also lived in the city, was killed during a mugging.
By contrast,4x4’s ending is more concerned with pointing an accusatory finger at society.
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