Dead Drop

I can happily report that low-budget, tibia-thrashingly trashy, bullet-brained action movies are still alive and well in charismatic skell-stomper Luke Goss's fabulously fleet fists! While some consider him to be diabolical dross, personally, I think the smoulderingly sexy, sleek-limbed Goss is a legit B-Movie boss! While recycling a far from original premise, 'Dead Drop' remains a serviceable, albeit generic, frequently bloody, seamily south of the border, revenge-fuelled DTV actioner, and I enjoyed the swelteringly sun-hazed Mexico-set backdrop, effectively lending this gritty tale of deadly C. I. A. Duplicity, and righteously unleashed vengeance an ersatz Peckinpah vibe!

Dead Drop's notable faults are that the no less reliable B-Warrior Cole Hauser is criminally underused here, and, frustratingly, the prosaic text is frequently uninvolving. On the upside, capable director R. Ellis Frazier is clearly forged from the same energized B-Movie mettle as martial arts mavens Ernie Barbarash, and Keoni Waxman, since Frazier successfully keeps his freight train of bitter revenge moving at a distractingly swift pace. As a momentary digression, Waxman made the altogether decent Goss-starring actioner 'Killing Salazar', which is arguably well worth a shot for fellow Goss gourmands! All the film's predictably stodgy, Alpha-dude ingredients are luxuriously leavened by the uncommonly sublime presence of dusky starlet Carolina Castro, playing Goss's especially exquisite damsel in distress 'Rosalita'. While I can accept 'Dead Drop' as having somewhat limited appeal outside of the myopic realms of B-Action fandom, this mucho-macho Mexican slug-fest excitingly proves yet again that gorgeously grizzled, steely-eyed Goss is a more than credible contemporary action hero!

Starring Luke Goss, he plays CIA Michael Shaughnessy who survived a gun shot as well as a fall from an ongoing plane. He sought for some payback to the cartel, Santiago (Nestor Carbonell) for shooting him because Santiago felt he was being double crossed. Michael disobeying his superiors orders, he goes back to Mexico and during which he meets an old flame Rosita (Carolina Castro). And upon Michael leaving her, she's then gets kidnapped creating more reasons to settle his score with Santiago.

Because it's low budget, the action here is nothing to get excited about that consists of a few shoot outs and some fisticuffs. In other words its a hit and miss.

I like Luke Goss. Most of his movies especially in the last decade has been DTV action stuff but i enjoy his acting, his presence, and sometimes the movies are fairly entertaining for there "DTV status". Sadly this is not one of them.

The story is played a bit as a mystery but the stuff happening never make you want to really know what happened. There is a decent ammount of action scenes and there not "terrible" by any means, but they ain't that interesting because you don't really care about the story. This is the biggest problem of the movie.

The characters, the story, there interactions, everything is not really interesting and by the middle of the movie you will have lost interest.

There is a character showing up in the middle of the movie that is so forgivable and seem to be there to just throw something at our hero because otherwise things would be too easy for him.

This is the kind of movie where you imagine yourself writing it and how much more interesting you could had made it, even with the same budget.

Even if you enjoy DTV action movies and Luke Goss, its a very forgivable movie that you can pass your way upon. I give a 4 because its "watchable", the acting is ok, the directing is ok, nothing comes out atrocious or anything, but its just a very mediocre action movie because the plot is not really interesting.

"If you come clean to me, if you confess then maybe I'll let you live." After Michael Shaughnessy (Goss) wakes up he begins to piece together what happened to him. He was thrown out of a plane and left for dead and now he wants revenge. He tracks his target to a Mexican drug trafficking ring and infiltrates it. He seems to slip in too easy but the farther in he goes the more dangerous and twisted it becomes. There isn't really all that much to say about this one. Another in the long line of B rate action movies that are at the same time generic and not sure of what they want to be. There are some good action scenes in this that keep you interested but then other scenes slow it way down and makes it hard to stay interested in. Unfortunately the boring scenes take up most of the movie and by the end you don't really get the emotion the movie was going for. This type of movie has been redone a million times and it needed something more to keep you interested. Overall, the kind of movie that you forget what your watching as you watch, which really hurts the end. I give this a C.

hello all my name is Romane Simon a filmmaker i watch the film twice and i like it

like all movies something the first 15 minute of a film always kind of slow, but its to establish the story,

this film capture me from the beginning till the end

the beginning to the end if you really take your time and watch the film without just watching it to critics it you will enjoy it,

i like where the director takes the film, and the shots

if you have not seen it go check it out.

the actors did a good job Luke's acting always good, the cinematography was good, love the direction so i don't want to spoil anything but this is a good action film to watch,