Drop Movie Review: Worst Date Night Ever
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Meghann Fahy stars in tech-thriller ‘Drop’ which follows her character Violet, a widowed mom nervous about her first date in a while, but terror replaces her excitement when someone starts bombarding her with threatening messages on her phone. Is she being harassed by her date? Or someone else with a sinister agenda?
Created by Christopher Landon (director), Jillian Jacobs (writer), and Chris Roach (writer), ‘Drop’ is a tense thriller, that also plays out like watching the “worst date ever” unravel before your eyes. Violet (Meghann Fahy) is dressed to the nines for her dinner date with handsome photographer Henry (Brandon Sklenar), who she is meeting for the first time. But the evening quickly derails as Violet grows distracted, constantly checking her phone or stepping away from the table, while an anonymous sender AirDrops her threatening messages, demanding she either kill Henry or risk finding her son dead. It’s a miracle Henry doesn’t walk off, which of course makes you wonder if he is a psycho blackmailing his own date.
Violet soon learns the whole restaurant is bugged and under total surveillance, making it extremely hard for her to seek help. Of-course, there are a bunch of other potential suspects who could be texting Violet, it could be anybody at the restaurant: their annoying server Matt (Jeffery Self), flirty pianist Phil (Ed Weeks), sharp eyed bartender Cara (Gabrielle Ryan), or fellow diners Richard (Reed Diamond), and Connor (Travis Nelson). Although the crazy “1984 on steroids” style surveillance is a bit far-fetched. But then again, the big motive reveal doesn’t really add up, considering the power the villain wields, their mission could have been accomplished in countless simpler ways. Anyway…
The fact that everybody is glued to their phones these days makes it doubly hard for Violet to figure out who is sending her the drops. So the film maintains the tight suspense over the antagonist’s identity until the end, but the awkward ‘first date’ banter between Violet and Henry gets increasingly painful to watch. Meghann Fahy delivers an entertainingly dramatic performance as the helpless mom forced to choose between murder and unimaginable loss. It’s an easy ‘lose-lose’ for her.
‘Drop’ taps into people’s uneasy relationship with technology, showing how a simple Air-Drop can become a weapon of terror. Overall, this is a stylish, over-the-top thriller, that begins to test viewer patience in the second-half, but makes for a decent one-time-watch.
Rating: 6 on 10. Watch ‘Drop’ on Hotstar/Zee5 or rent it on Prime Video.
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