American director Christopher Landon, the same one who shot Happy Death Day , returns with a chilling thriller Drop. There are no killers with chainsaws, but there is a cozy restaurant, a panoramic view - and a threat lurking in a smartphone.
The film ideologically inherits the best traditions of Hitchcock: a minimum of locations, a maximum of nerves, and instead of spies - the most ordinary Friday evening.
Psychotherapist Violet is a single mother and a pro at work, but not in love. After a divorce, she decides to go online dating. Dinner with a handsome photographer Henry promises to be romantic. Until the moment she receives the first message: "Kill him - otherwise your son will die."
The DigiDrop application, through which threats are received, becomes a digital trap. Violet has only one hour to figure out who is blackmailing her. Suspicion falls on everyone: the waiter is too polite, the pianist plays in an uneasy way, the man at the bar is too calm. And each of them is a potential killer.
The Clock Is Ticking
Meghann Fahy (The White Lotus) is great at maintaining tension: her Violet is not an action heroine, but an ordinary woman who finds herself in a nightmarish dilemma. There is nowhere to run. You can’t share with anyone. And all that’s left is to play by someone else’s rules.
Drop is paranoia, suspense, and sick humor all rolled into one. Not the deepest, but an effective thriller that makes a date at a restaurant seem less harmless.
