The Drop (2014)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 106m
Director: Michaël R. Roskam
Cast: Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, James Gandolfini, Matthias Schoenaerts
Synopsis:
A New York bartender working for his cousin rescues a pitbull puppy from a neighbourhood dustbin and strikes up a friendship with the proprietor; meanwhile his cousin and manager plans to hijack the local Chechen mafia's take when it becomes his bar's turn to receive the 'drop'.
Review:
Low-key crime drama of the kind Sidney Lumet used to make. Gandolfini, in his last role, channels his customary sadsack mobster persona, and Hardy, a Welshman, turns in a passable imitation of Marlon Brando's Terry Malloy; only Schoenaerts (as usual) contributes a nuanced performance that makes the most of an underwritten part. Stylishly packaged, and with a nice line in street fatalism, it transcends its standard generic ingredients and offers a final palatable glimmer of hope by knowing not to cut.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 106m
Director: Michaël R. Roskam
Cast: Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, James Gandolfini, Matthias Schoenaerts
Synopsis:
A New York bartender working for his cousin rescues a pitbull puppy from a neighbourhood dustbin and strikes up a friendship with the proprietor; meanwhile his cousin and manager plans to hijack the local Chechen mafia's take when it becomes his bar's turn to receive the 'drop'.
Review:
Low-key crime drama of the kind Sidney Lumet used to make. Gandolfini, in his last role, channels his customary sadsack mobster persona, and Hardy, a Welshman, turns in a passable imitation of Marlon Brando's Terry Malloy; only Schoenaerts (as usual) contributes a nuanced performance that makes the most of an underwritten part. Stylishly packaged, and with a nice line in street fatalism, it transcends its standard generic ingredients and offers a final palatable glimmer of hope by knowing not to cut.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 106m
Director: Michaël R. Roskam
Cast: Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, James Gandolfini, Matthias Schoenaerts
Synopsis:
A New York bartender working for his cousin rescues a pitbull puppy from a neighbourhood dustbin and strikes up a friendship with the proprietor; meanwhile his cousin and manager plans to hijack the local Chechen mafia's take when it becomes his bar's turn to receive the 'drop'.
Review:
Low-key crime drama of the kind Sidney Lumet used to make. Gandolfini, in his last role, channels his customary sadsack mobster persona, and Hardy, a Welshman, turns in a passable imitation of Marlon Brando's Terry Malloy; only Schoenaerts (as usual) contributes a nuanced performance that makes the most of an underwritten part. Stylishly packaged, and with a nice line in street fatalism, it transcends its standard generic ingredients and offers a final palatable glimmer of hope by knowing not to cut.