This unsettling Korean thriller tells the contemporary cautionary tale of a young woman who lives her life through her smartphone and one night leaves it on the nightbus during a heavy night out, only for a stranger to pick it up and use it to completely unravel her entire life, from assuming the online identities of her friends to destructive effect to mapping out every aspect of her life and insinuating himself into her world. Led by an engaging performance from Woo-hee Chun as the victim and a carefully-controlled portrayal of the coolly psychopathic tormentor from Si-wan Yim, Unlocked is a very deliberate and low-key film that makes the loss of control feel rather sinister. It uses the technology on-screen to good effect and ramps up the tension in the second half effectively, offering a sobering warning about our reliance on our phones today.
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