Review of Monolith

Monolith (2016)
Boring, just so boring overall!
2 March 2017
Warning: Spoilers
OK, it's not the worst movie I've ever seen but it's up there. First off, I think people should know that this movie has three different titles at the time of writing this review - it is known as Monolith, Trapped Child and (in the UK as) Locked In.

So the lady is given the ultimate safest car of the future as it is packed full of technology. The car can drive by itself via a computer while protecting anyone inside kinda like a mobile bank vault if you will.

Long story short, the lady takes to trip LA with her kid but gets herself lost along the way in the middle of nowhere, she hits something and stops to check, gives the kid her mobile/cellphone to play around while she checks on what she has hit.

With mother outside, the child access the controls of the car via the app and locks himself in, and that is pretty much the whole movie. The kid is Locked In. And for more then 40 odd minutes, we watch as the lady tries to break into the unbreakable car - hence why it's got boring fast.

The idea of this movie has kinda been done before, think Panic Room but the bad guys as the mother and the panic room is on wheels.

This whole movie could have been avoided if she had just given the kid a tablet to play with in the first place. Oh and listen out for the "Terminator" style music score throughout.
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