Drop, the review of the Blumhouse movie

Not all the first appointments are destined to end well. Indeed, it is usually the opposite, and it is not just the case of Drop – accepts or refusesnew film between the thriller and the horror of the Blumhouse. There are too high expectations, the need to make a good impression. There is also the fear that the other person does not conquer ourselves, not to return to our tastes or, simply, we do not hear any spark, making ourselves returning home once again disappointed by the usual apps that have not been able to make us find the soul mate and determined to eliminate them once and for all – which, punctually, is never done. It certainly cannot be said that it is the same thing, but sometimes it sometimes also happens with the films. There are all the premises for a pleasant vision, it has carved out its time to be able to devote yourself to history and then, when the screen goes on black, you feel a disheartening and incurable disappointment.

This is what happens with the work of Christopher Landonnot too much because of the director who finds himself directing it, as much as the duo to the script Jillian Jacobs and Chris Roach who is not understood which direction they wanted to give to the film, so much so that they ended up to pull the most unexpected, but not satisfactory ranks. Dropin fact, begins on the one hand to end then totally from another, and not for one of those beautiful trips in which each turning point is a surprise, but due to an inconclusiveness that goes to adversely affect on the result of the film.

Drop: what is the film directed by Christopher Landon about

Violet (Meghann Fahy) is a mother and psychotherapist who has not been released for many years because of the violence suffered by the ex -husband who is now dead and who finally decides to give in to the enticements of the kind and affable Henry (Brandon Sklenar) with which he finds himself in the elegant and pretentious Palate restaurant. The protagonist is nervous, he tries the mixture of anxiety and excitement of when it is not known how things could go, and what will happen during the evening will actually be unexpected, one could say unthinkable. Violet will begin to receive A series of drops (images and messages sent with the phone airdrop, so to speak) who will force her to take a position and make choices to prevent her son and sister from being killed by a hooded man who wanders around their home. All observed by the camera connected to her phone, which will become the main interlocutor of the woman, who will have to disagree the danger and pretend to be cheerful and carefree during the worst appointment of her life, trying to follow the orders that arrive and hope to keep her family safe.

The themes that Drop He could have explored would have been multiple and all intriguing: the difficulty of the dates in the era of the apps – incredibly current – the pervasiveness of technology That does not abandon us even a moment, being constantly observed and/or manipulated. He could have exploited the fear of the web, cell phones like black boxes of our life, of the unknown that hides behind a screen. Instead, none of this is touched, not even taken into consideration while Jacobs and Roach try to build a thriller in writing that reaches such a closure Complicated and astrusa That it would be easier to believe that a first appointment actually went well than what the two screenwriters have instead offered.

A film that remains a prisoner of himself

The tension aroused at the beginning, the setting at the closed theater given by Landon and the questioning those of those present is behind the orders given to Violet unfortunately they are not enough to make up for the transience of a story that cannot to make its improbability crediblewhich is then what is based on the entire mystery of the drop received by the protagonist. Who should also tease his inner trauma and ghosts that return to tormenting it from the past, remaining instead disconnected from the introspection and the personal side of the character, as well as by the rest of the film.

Landon is also forced into a too complex story, just as the protagonist is a prisoner of the restaurant on the upper floors of the city. A project from which we would have liked more By virtue of the skills previously shown by the director, who also had to abandon the third film of the Revival of Scream Due to the internal, productive and political diatribes, suffered by the saga. And of which it is better then to recover, if you have not already done it, the funniest and most happy Best wishes for your death And Freakyhoping that the future knows how to reserve the most inviting and consistent projects, in which he will be able to assert more than he could do with Drop.