I was not so excited to see a film that I had to see Drop in years possibly. I saw the trailer a few months ago at the beginning of another film that I do not remember, and this is how the trailer happens: Ginormous House. Hot lighting. A small R&B. Meghann Fahy. “It’s just an appointment.” A sweet halcyon sticker, you know, can only be the prologue to massive shit. Fahy leaves her pretty kid with her pretty sister for the house, and now she wears too much makeup and looks at a ginormous skyscraper. The restaurant at the top, also Ginormous, is a golden room with brilliant orbs for lights and enveloping windows overlooking a brilliant city. Everything here seems to cost $ 9 million. R&B resumes. An Indiana Jones bac (Brandon Sklenar, and no, I don’t know who it is either). His appointment. The lame jokes (“Sorry, I had a drink because I was nervous.” “I had a couple in the car on the way.” Hahahaha.) Then. The holder drop.
Fahy’s phone buzzes, the music degrades, it begins to obtain ardrops on the left and on the right, and it and Indiana Jones cannot understand who it is. Then, the music plunged another dive because the Air Department told her to look at her security cameras and she goes from a room to room until she finally sees him: the man masked in his house. This man will literally kill his cute child – The aerial card uses a lot of traffic jams – unless she does one thing: kill his appointment. I mean, I’ll do it.
Who wouldn’t want to see this film?! It is essentially an action thriller from the 90s !!! Think Speed, Where the bus explodes if Sandra Bullock does not keep him above 50 miles per hour while flirting with Keanu Reeves! Think The fugitiveWhere Harrison Ford lives with a time borrowed trying to find the real killer of Sela Ward! Think QuarterWhere Johnny Depp must assassinate a politician in his little slutty glasses, where his daughter will die! Think of countless famous stars that run to beat the clock and save someone’s life and by extension theirs!
Articles on articles dating from more than a decade have tackled the death of the film in mid-Budget, which is the term industry that people use for these films, instead of “brilliant”. These are films that cost less than $ 50 million and are more focused on the characters and oriented towards adults, which seems pornographic, and compared to the type of shit studios classified in G, they are in a way. “All major studios now belong to enormous media conglomerates that include merchandising, television, publication and, sometimes, themed parks,” wrote Dorothy Pomerantz to Forbes In 2012. “It is wise for studios to concentrate as much energy and money as possible on the biggest films that will generate the most income in the end.” As Jason Bailey wrote it in Flavorwire two years later, “the films that do not get into this box (thoughtful dramas, dark comedies, bizarre thrillers, experimental efforts) were relegated to India, where freedom is greater, but the resources are much more limited.”
No, Drop is not weird. But that shows how much things have had a decade, which must be an independent film. Drop Cost of around $ 10 million and was produced by Blumhouse, the production company that belongs to Jason Blum, which did its job to be a kind of Savior in mid-Budget, although it knows more for its horror films (Happy death daywhere the character continues to relive his murder over and over again, is the most comparable here, and perhaps why director Christopher Landon was hired for Drop). Steven Soderbergh has also done a good job to keep the budget market mid-Budget on life support. Black bag, Its last, is a film of $ 50 million on a few spies that also happen to be a couple, however Drop more recalls his techno thriller in 2022 on the race in 2022 KimiA direct streamer With Zoë Kravitz.
Drop Go well. It doesn’t suck. It’s not boring (well, the girl next to me was on her phone all the time, so maybe it was somehow). It doesn’t seem to have to go directly to streaming anyway. I knew that I had built this too in progress film, but I have always been surprised by disappointment. Fahy is really not given enough to do. Within the limits of history – in which an eye that cannot pin, she looks at it each movement, always ready to press the relaxation – it is limited to do nothing. She is like the opposite of Bruce Willis Die hard. The fact that she cannot say to her wet appointment, or to the beautiful bartender, she should really go out together, or the guy who waits for her sister who, according to her, could be the brain, or literally someone else in this populated restaurant means that she is essentially … Assists. Drop Cursed to run your wheels, and not even as fast. And her two great moments of heroin arrive too late to compensate for this. The public applauded, however, so maybe I’m just an asshole.
I will say this: when I think of the thrillers of the 90s that I mentioned above, they vary, but they are consistent with a handful of important ways. They always have an extremely charismatic star (yes, Depp was charismatic at some point). And they were not always men – Ashley Judd was a great thriller Gal of the 90s (in fact, my thriller of the favorite 90s), just like Bullock. And I’m not saying that Fahy is not a big actress – she came out of The white lotus For a reason – but it is better known for its subtlety. Thrillers like this need a big game, big as wesley snipes in Passenger 57. You must be able to order an airplane. They also need chemistry. Reeves leaning on Bullock at the wheel of a bus is warmer than the real kiss between Fahy and Sklenar Drop. Not that chemistry is sexual. Judd and Morgan Freeman Kiss girlsFord and Tommy Lee Jones The fugitive– There is crackling, if not sparkling. Fahy had more chemistry with Aubrey Plaza The white lotus. The other thing is that aluminum foil should be fallible. In these films, heroes can be intelligent, but they are not necessarily geniuses, it’s just that the bad guys are not all powerful. Remember how Speed They are able to deceive a Batshit Dennis Hopper by completing the security images on the bus, so that they can remove people without seeing him? In DropThe villain is so in control that it is as if the cat had already paralyzed the mouse before the game begins.
But it is not so much the fault of the actors. It’s no longer a script problem. And the Drop The script is a problem. It is simply not so strong, neither dialogue nor history itself. And with this small movement on the screen, you at least need good liners (the server, played by a very game Jeffery Self, bless his soul, try). There is a reason why Shane Black was so famous in the 80s and 90s: he could write action, but it was his dialogue, it was the way he wrote his scripts that made them so expensive (and the fact that he is a guy). There is no equivalent to “I am too old for this shit” Drop. There is also no dam jumping, a jump bus or any other type of crazy game towards construction. When Fahy falls from the window, it happens like all the rest of the film: as just … a little … whatever. There is no real momentum. I don’t know who is the fault. It’s not like Landon doesn’t know how to lead. Happy death day was fun!
As DropI have no great conclusion. Nothing I say can be said by the fact that the trailers in front of the film were for the action live How to train your dragon, Jurassic Park Part 3000 And The bad guys 2 (I don’t even know what it is – Oh, it’s based on a children’s book from an Australian named Aaron Blabey). Obviously, the fact that there are so few films in a low budget means that I charge too much about those around, which means poor Drop must bring the weight. More than anything else, I can’t stop thinking about the hippie I met during a little jazz concert improvised last week, which was my age but who had never heard Sneakers, The 1992 thriller on a bunch of exploded security specialists led by Robert Redford. He wrote it in his little newspaper, passing a page with his baby’s imprint on it. He can watch this film for the first time, as if it was 1992 again. He is probably looking at him right now, this little kid next to him, and I have never been so jealous of anyone in my life.
