Drop

Year of release : 2025

Run time : 1h36m

Genre : Thriller

The movie opens with Violet being held at gun point by her unhinged husband.

We then see her giving good advice to one of her patients, as she's a psychiatrist.

Five years after the incident which opened the movie, Violet is ready to date again. She leaves her 5 year old son in the care of her younger sister, and goes to Palate, a high raise restaurant, to see a photographer she's been talking to through a date app.

As Violet is waiting for him at the bar, she meets the bartender Cara, and an old man who is also on a date, a blind one.

Soon, she starts receiving drops, which she declines, but they start getting threatening.

After her date arrives, she tells him about the drops, and he tells her he can find out who it is, but his attempt fails.

 

The drops tell her to check her home security system, and she sees her sister being knocked out by a masked man with a gun, who then grabs her son. The drops tell her not to alert anyone or leave, or they'll k1ll her son. She tries to tell someone in the bathroom, and realizes the person hears everything. So she looks through the bathroom, and finds a listening device. She finds the same thing on her table, and when she wants to move to another table, the person threatens her, so they have to move back, discovering her table has cameras pointed at it from two different angles.

They want her to get the photographer's SD card, and while she does, she sees he photographed what he shouldn't have.

 

Although she destroys the SD card as told, the drops person won't leave her alone, and asks her to po1son her date with a po1son they had hidden for her in the towel box of the restroom.

She suspects a man who is always on his phone, telling her he waits for his sister, but she might be wrong.

The movie was entertaining, it keeps you guessing, on your toes, going through the motions with the lead.

The lead looks from the outside like an unhinged woman to everyone around her, and considering the way she was acting at the date, I'm surprised her date stayed.

The movie has a few plot holes (she could have shut off her phone, ignored the drops..), but if you're willing to overlook it, it's a great watch.

The movie was beautifully crafted, everything looked great, it had beautiful colors, the restaurant was beautiful, her house was beautiful.

The acting was great, especially from the lead, Meghann Fahy, who was beautiful and dressed well.

I liked the movie's intro which features objects which appear in the movie.

I liked the visual effects, the action scenes towards the end, the way they worked the messages which appear on screen, with the acting.

I loved the soundtrack, especially the first song, which opens the movie.

The movie grossed 28.5 million dollars against a budget of 11 million.

Most of the reviews are positive, and the Cinema Score audiences gave it a B, on an A to F scale.

Drop is for rent / sale on Amazon, AppleTv, Fandango at Home.

Rating : Worth a watch !