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Drop - This is such an intensely suspenseful movie. Every moment, it seems like something awful is about to happen, in spite of the fact that, for a movie like this, the body count is actually pretty low.
Starring the excellent Tom Hardy and the last performance by James Gandolfini, the story centers around a bar in Brooklyn that’s used to drop off money that is due to some seriously scary Chehen gangsters. When a robbery happens in the bar, “Bob” (Tom Hardy), the quiet, unobtrusive bartender, working for his would-be gangster cousin Marv (Gandolfini), finds himself in the middle of a scheme that he doesn’t completely understand. Bob lives a very quiet life, doesn’t bother anybody and is the sort of guy who rescues an abused puppy from a trash can. In the process, he finds a new girlfriend Nadia (the excellent Noomi Rapace) and begins to show something of himself that seems out of character.
When things start to go bad, we have the sense that there’s more to Bob than he lets us expect. He’s stuck in the middle of a gangland scheme that puts Nadia and even the puppy in serious danger, but nothing is more important to him than his new, scared girlfriend and his puppy. Nothing in this movie is excessive, the entire cast, especially Hardy, Rapace and Gandolfini are perfectly cast. The tension builds pretty much from moment one. Brooklyn rarely looked sketchier. It’s a very low-tech movie, relying on excellent performances from its lead actors, well worth a viewing if you like gritty suspense.
Starring the excellent Tom Hardy and the last performance by James Gandolfini, the story centers around a bar in Brooklyn that’s used to drop off money that is due to some seriously scary Chehen gangsters. When a robbery happens in the bar, “Bob” (Tom Hardy), the quiet, unobtrusive bartender, working for his would-be gangster cousin Marv (Gandolfini), finds himself in the middle of a scheme that he doesn’t completely understand. Bob lives a very quiet life, doesn’t bother anybody and is the sort of guy who rescues an abused puppy from a trash can. In the process, he finds a new girlfriend Nadia (the excellent Noomi Rapace) and begins to show something of himself that seems out of character.
When things start to go bad, we have the sense that there’s more to Bob than he lets us expect. He’s stuck in the middle of a gangland scheme that puts Nadia and even the puppy in serious danger, but nothing is more important to him than his new, scared girlfriend and his puppy. Nothing in this movie is excessive, the entire cast, especially Hardy, Rapace and Gandolfini are perfectly cast. The tension builds pretty much from moment one. Brooklyn rarely looked sketchier. It’s a very low-tech movie, relying on excellent performances from its lead actors, well worth a viewing if you like gritty suspense.
