THE BODY IN THE LOCKER

Here is the decision, and it is not a close one. THE BODY IN THE LOCKER has a genuinely intriguing premise — a grieving daughter opens her late father's storage locker and finds a dead woman inside — and then spends its running time burying that premise under detail it never needed.
The mystery is predictable. The plot is convoluted. The twists land long after you have worked them out, so you spend the film waiting for the characters to catch up with you rather than racing them to the answer.
The content is comparatively light. Three OMG profanities. A burglary, a head injury, an accidental shooting, all with minimal blood. Wine in two scenes, never to excess. An admitted affair that produced a child born outside marriage. The content section also lists smoking and drug abuse. It is a fair caution for older children, teenagers and sensitive adults.
So: there is nothing here that will harm you, and not much that will reward you either. If the evening is worth more than a mystery you will have solved long before its characters do, spend it somewhere else.

Amy is grieving. Her father has recently died, she misses him badly, and she is carrying the weight of his legacy as head of the Leigh Foundation, which helps children pursue higher education.
Checking on his house, she surprises a burglar — who drops a jewelry box on the way out. Inside it are a password-protected flash drive and a key to a storage locker.
Amy goes to the locker. There is a body inside.

Two stars, and the premise is why it is not fewer. A dead woman in a dead man's storage locker is a strong opening, and for a while the film has your attention.
Then it starts adding. Unnecessary details pile onto the central mystery until they obscure it, and the complexity makes the action genuinely hard to follow — not intriguing, just cluttered. A thriller can be complicated or it can be convoluted, and this one comes down on the wrong side of that line.
Worse, for a mystery, the twists are predictable. You arrive first and then wait, which drains the tension out of the very scenes built to deliver it. The result is a plot-twist-heavy thriller whose plot twists mostly land with a shrug.

THE BODY IN THE LOCKER carries a light moral worldview, and it is genuinely on the side of the truth. Its heroine wants to know who the dead woman was and who is answerable for her, and that instinct — that a stranger's death demands an answer — is a decent one.
Amy also wants to carry on her father's charitable work. The foundation exists to help children reach higher education, and her determination to keep it going is treated as admirable rather than naive.
The world around her runs the other way. Nearly everyone in this story is holding something back. Characters agree to obscure the truth in order to protect the family's reputation. One admits to an extramarital affair that produced a child born out of wedlock. Another admits to hiding a bad investment from his wife and his coworkers — then, to his credit, confesses and apologizes. Another admits he started a charitable foundation to conceal payments to the mother of his illegitimate child, while insisting that the work the foundation did became the thing he was proudest of.
That last admission carries the sharpest question in the story: good done for buried reasons is still good, and still buried. Scripture is not sentimental about how long such things stay buried. "Nothing is covered up that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known" (Luke 12:2).

The premise deserved a better movie. A body in a storage locker, a daughter who wants the truth, a foundation built on something other than what it claimed — there is a real mystery in that material, and this film loses it in the underbrush. Our answer stands: skip it. For an evening that pays you back, start with our family-friendly picks.