The Drop

The premise of the movie - a young man trapped in a parking garage and evading bad guys pursing him - isn't a bad one. The idea of adding supernatural elements to this premise also could have worked. However, the way that those ideas were executed here make for one of the worst movies I have seen in a long, long time. It seems like EVERYTHING about this movie is botched. Technically, the movie is a mess; the photography is dark and murky, the lighting is inadequate throughout, and the musical score is harsh and annoying. But what's even worse is the way the movie is written and directed. The movie makes no sense, with its constant meandering making you wonder in every scene if what we are seeing is "real" or a fantasy of one of the characters. It's so constantly confusing, I don't know how the heck I managed to watch the entire movie without hitting the eject button on my DVD player. One thing's for certain: I'm not going to seek out any other movies made by this director!

Someone decided to make a thriller and had no money for a decent set, so they probably drove into an overnight car park and made up the story to go with it. It was such a cheap movie that they did could not fill up the car park with more than two or three cars on each level - and the hero (who is not even hunky) manages to dodge his pursuers for the best part of an hour hiding behind and under cars. They obviously had no lighting rig of any sort either.

Just to pad it out, the director keeps repeating the same old flashbacks, some times it is just the sound track. This is so irritating that after the sixth repeat of any particular flashback, you feel like throwing any handy projectile at your TV screen.

The principal villain turns in a really disinterested performance. Well, what do you expect, when the script is so lame. The stupid young man who opens the parcel he is paid to deliver, and decides he must "save the world" has absolutely no survival skills - twice he could have turned the tables but lamely does not take advantage of the opportunity. His girl friend is no less idiotic.

The worst atrocity is the beautiful and talented Sean Young accepting this acting assignment. She must be desperate. Her presence is never explained and her lines are appalling.

What a waste of time. Take heed of this and other warnings on these pages. You will regret it if you don't and be angry enough to spend another fifteen minutes complaining in a review the film does not deserve.

This movie is the worst movie ever! Believe me i have seen a lot bad of movies in my life but from now on this is my nr1 WORST movie ever. Congrats.. I thought that nothing could ever beat Alone in the dark but now i know that i couldn't be more wrong. The movie starts bad and it gets worser by the minute.. Really it is that bad.

There are so many things that irritate me about this movie that if i think of it again i just want to keep smashing my head against the wall until i pass out. The camera-work is so bad, it looks that the camera-dude for the first time in his life had a cam in his hands and just randomly started to push all buttons to see what what would happen.

And then there is the acting.. Omg the worst part of the movie.. It just looks that the actors read their lines of text from the back-palm of their hands, especially the main-dude with his girlfriend.. I can remember a phone conversation between them that with no doubt is one of the worst acting performances ever known to mankind, i have seen robots on the discovery channel that where better in expressing their self more convincing then these 2.

There are about a 1000 more things bad about this movie but i don''t want to spend anymore time on this trash. DON'T WATCH THIS MOVIE! EVER!

In THE DROP, a man named Carter (Michael Bondies) drives his car from San Francisco to Los Angeles, never knowing that he's transporting pure eeevil in his trunk.

Once he arrives at his destination, it seems as though something interesting is about to happen.

Nope.

Carter sits in his car in a parking garage for what feels like a century watching people stroll by. We begin to wonder if this is a trick, some sort of endurance test.

Then, the bad guys arrive. Hooray! Let the action begin. Now, they run around the parking structure for yet another eternity to no avail. John Savage does his best grimacing and Sean Young looks mysterious, all while a great deal of nothingness occurs.

The End.

My friends, watching this "movie" is like dropping an anvil on your foot. Both feet. Hell, bring on the anvil!

Don't do this to yourselves...

The acting, dialog, & action were all terrible in this film. There is a scene in the parking ramp where the bad guys are stalking the main character, and even though he is crouching behind one of only two cars in the lot, they can't find him. And even though his cell phone doesn't get any reception in the parking ramp, the bad guy keeps taking out HIS cell phone & making calls with no trouble. Also, after the main character gets beaten up, his face looks purple, like the makeup person just colored his face with purple powder. A really terrible film that I kept hoping would get better, but it never did. I can't imagine why Sean Young agreed to be in this movie. She is usually such a terrific actress.