Drop Review

 

Drop feels like a modern Hitchcock techno-thriller, with some fun humor mixed in.

The entire cast gives great performances; I was really impressed with the leads (Meghann Fahy and Brandon Sklenar). Quick side note, I think that Sklenar dude would make a great Batman, so if James Gunn read this (I’m sure everyone in Hollywood reads my stuff), keep an eye on this guy lol.

There were a lot of cool, crazy camera angles and interesting lighting choices, which is always a big plus for me. Also, good editing; it flowed well.

There were a lot of smart twists and turns the characters made, and well, in that respect, I should’ve seen something coming. I was definitely surprised how other things worked out.

I liked a lot of the jokes in this; they felt very natural and real, not to mention funny lol.

One of my favorite character actors, Reed Diamond, was in the film, and I really liked his performance. I was really impressed with Violet Beane. I’ve seen her in things before, but she was really fun in this, so I hope to see more of her based on this role. And there was an actor in this named Jeffrey, self, who is also very funny, but ironic because his character was very self-obsessed lol.

Most of the movie takes place in one location, and it was a great use of that location, in both style and spite of being in the same room for almost an hour and a half; it never felt boring, and it had a lot of texture.

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It took me a while to realize that what the character was going through was being mirrored in the actual plot of the film, and how that was unrolled and presented I thought was really clever and cool, so that’s like the biggest compliment. I could give the film, also, and how once she confronted what she was going on on the inside, it affected things in the plot.

There was one or two things that happened in the climax that I thought were stretching believability, but they weren’t too bad.

I wasn’t a big fan of the climax… I’m sorry, the second climax. Because the movie is pretty much over, but it’s like the producers saw the film and were like, “Put a __ at the end,” even though there is no real reason for it, and let me just say, without spoiling anything… worst assassin ever. That being said, it is well shot and has some cool action bits and camera moves, so the filmmaker didn’t… phone it in lol. I just thought it was unnecessary and pretty ridiculous in parts with the writing and character decisions and some leaps in logic… I tried to give a compliment, but I made it sound worse lol.

So I was very pleasantly surprised by this movie. I loved a lot of the acting and humor and twist and filmmaking. Just maybe skip the second climax and go right to the epilogue when you watch the movie because I think they’ll actually improve your viewing experience… I give Drop a low four out of five stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.