Mumbos62
Joined Sep 2011
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There are bad thrillers, and then there's Drop-a movie so over-the-top and undercooked it almost feels like satire. Unfortunately, it's not. It's just a bloated, ridiculous mess that mistakes techy gimmicks and forced tension for storytelling.
The premise had potential: a widow gets threatening messages from an app called DigiDrop during a date, forcing her into a nightmarish moral dilemma. Sounds juicy, right? Except it all plays out like a rejected Black Mirror episode written by someone who thinks "suspense" means throwing in random plot twists every 15 minutes and hoping something sticks. Spoiler: nothing does.
The dialogue is wooden, the pacing is chaotic, and every character aside from one seems to be powered by glitchy AI. But somehow-miraculously-Brandon Sklenar rises above it all. He's magnetic, grounded, and oddly believable even as the plot spirals into absurdity. It's like watching a classically trained chef trying to save a microwave dinner with truffle oil. He brings real depth to a character that was written like a placeholder, and his presence alone keeps the film from being a total joke.
Meghann Fahy does her best, but she's saddled with a script that gives her nothing to work with beyond wide-eyed panic and repetitive dialogue. The rest of the cast may as well be reading stage directions. The app? Laughable. The stakes? Contrived. The resolution? Eye-rollingly dumb.
By the time the credits rolled, I wasn't on the edge of my seat-I was on the edge of hitting "delete" on the whole experience. If Brandon Sklenar wasn't in this movie, I wouldn't even be writing this review-I'd be pretending I never saw it.
So here's the bottom line: Drop is a mess. But if you're a Sklenar fan, it might be worth the pain just to watch him try and single-handedly rescue a sinking ship. He almost does. Almost.
The premise had potential: a widow gets threatening messages from an app called DigiDrop during a date, forcing her into a nightmarish moral dilemma. Sounds juicy, right? Except it all plays out like a rejected Black Mirror episode written by someone who thinks "suspense" means throwing in random plot twists every 15 minutes and hoping something sticks. Spoiler: nothing does.
The dialogue is wooden, the pacing is chaotic, and every character aside from one seems to be powered by glitchy AI. But somehow-miraculously-Brandon Sklenar rises above it all. He's magnetic, grounded, and oddly believable even as the plot spirals into absurdity. It's like watching a classically trained chef trying to save a microwave dinner with truffle oil. He brings real depth to a character that was written like a placeholder, and his presence alone keeps the film from being a total joke.
Meghann Fahy does her best, but she's saddled with a script that gives her nothing to work with beyond wide-eyed panic and repetitive dialogue. The rest of the cast may as well be reading stage directions. The app? Laughable. The stakes? Contrived. The resolution? Eye-rollingly dumb.
By the time the credits rolled, I wasn't on the edge of my seat-I was on the edge of hitting "delete" on the whole experience. If Brandon Sklenar wasn't in this movie, I wouldn't even be writing this review-I'd be pretending I never saw it.
So here's the bottom line: Drop is a mess. But if you're a Sklenar fan, it might be worth the pain just to watch him try and single-handedly rescue a sinking ship. He almost does. Almost.
"G20" is the cinematic equivalent of wrapping the American flag around a missile and calling it diplomacy. This high-octane political action thriller positions the United States as the lone savior of the free world - again - with the kind of invincibility usually reserved for comic book superheroes or fever dreams from the Pentagon.
From the first explosion to the final, slow-motion flag wave, "G20" makes one thing clear: Americans can do anything - survive impossible odds, outwit international superpowers, and defuse geopolitical crises with a single inspirational speech or a well-aimed punch. It's not just unrealistic - it's comically over-the-top.
The plot, thin as it is, involves an elite American operative (of course) thwarting a global threat at the annual G20 summit. The rest of the world's leaders mostly stand around helplessly, reduced to background props while the U. S. single-handedly saves the day. Russian hackers? No match. Rogue drones? Shot out of the sky with sunglasses still on. Nuclear codes? Already hacked by the CIA before breakfast.
While the pacing is relentless and the action sequences are polished, the film constantly asks viewers to suspend all disbelief. It's less a geopolitical thriller and more a muscle-flexing fantasy that leaves no cliché unexplored - complete with American exceptionalism on steroids.
In short: If you're looking for realism, look elsewhere. If you're in the mood for unapologetic flag-waving, gravity-defying heroism, and a plot where the laws of physics (and politics) take a back seat to pure spectacle - "G20" delivers, just don't take it too seriously.
Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars - for entertainment value, not plausibility.
From the first explosion to the final, slow-motion flag wave, "G20" makes one thing clear: Americans can do anything - survive impossible odds, outwit international superpowers, and defuse geopolitical crises with a single inspirational speech or a well-aimed punch. It's not just unrealistic - it's comically over-the-top.
The plot, thin as it is, involves an elite American operative (of course) thwarting a global threat at the annual G20 summit. The rest of the world's leaders mostly stand around helplessly, reduced to background props while the U. S. single-handedly saves the day. Russian hackers? No match. Rogue drones? Shot out of the sky with sunglasses still on. Nuclear codes? Already hacked by the CIA before breakfast.
While the pacing is relentless and the action sequences are polished, the film constantly asks viewers to suspend all disbelief. It's less a geopolitical thriller and more a muscle-flexing fantasy that leaves no cliché unexplored - complete with American exceptionalism on steroids.
In short: If you're looking for realism, look elsewhere. If you're in the mood for unapologetic flag-waving, gravity-defying heroism, and a plot where the laws of physics (and politics) take a back seat to pure spectacle - "G20" delivers, just don't take it too seriously.
Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars - for entertainment value, not plausibility.
This was really good drama but the last episode really spoilt it.
Silly end!