The Drop
The late James Gandolfini stars alongside Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace in this crime drama involving murder, a scam artist and a missing pit bull. Written by Dennis Lehane, the crime writer behind Mystic River and Shutter Island.
Bob Saginowski (Hardy) is trying to steer himself off the criminal path when he is sucked back in by a heist gone wrong. The blunder results in a killing and the loss of a much contested pitbull. Nadia (Rapace) becomes involved when she finds the wounded puppy outside her home. From Belgian director Michaël R. Roskam (Bullhead).
- Director:
- Michaël R. Roskam ('Bullhead')
- Writer:
- Dennis Lehane
- Cast:
- Tom HardyNoomi RapaceJames GandolfiniMatthias SchoenaertsJohn Ortiz
Reviews & comments
Flicks, Adam Fresco
flicksThe filmmakers had me at “Tom Hardy with a puppy”. If you need more convincing, read on. Following in the a tradition of gritty underbelly, anti-Godfather-glamour, street crime movies in the Mean Streets mould, The Drop is penned by Dennis (Gone Baby Gone) Lehane, directed by Belgian Michaël (Bullhead) Roskam, and features the late James Gandolfini in his final role, alongside Noomi Rapace, Tom Hardy, and the cutest pit bull puppy in Brooklyn.
Go for Gandolfini
I went to see this because it was James Gandolfini's last film before he died :( I loved the Supranos and was so sad to hear when he passed. He is the best things about this film in my opinion he steels the show from Tom Hardy who seems like he is trying to hard. The plot is a bit cliche and over drawn which makes it hard to really care about the...
Surprisingly entertaining
When the reviewer wrote 'Tom Hardy with a puppy' I rolled my eyes and though 'no, no no - not my kind of film'. However I was pleasantly surprised. The direction is really what saves this from being a bag full of cliches and leaves you pondering a question you might not otherwise ever think of.
Variety
pressTom Hardy gives another terrific performance as a Brooklyn bartender in writer Dennis Lehane's adaptation of his own short story.
Time Out
pressThe Drop putters along in a dozy register, less a simmering pot than a cooling one.
The Dissolve
pressThe entire film vibrates with understated tension, but almost never raises its voice above a hissed threat or a discomfited mutter.
Rolling Stone
pressGives us one more chance to salute the formidable talent of a remarkable actor [James Gandolfini] who died in June 2013 at age 51.
Hollywood Reporter
pressThe picture belongs to Tom Hardy, whose astonishingly sensitive performance even the great James Gandolfini steps gently around.
Empire Magazine
pressThe cute puppy almost steals the show but Hardy is ace and quite the watchable chameleon in his surprising switch from lovable dumb ox to cannier-than-we-thought.
Flicks, Adam Fresco
flicksThe filmmakers had me at “Tom Hardy with a puppy”. If you need more convincing, read on. Following in the a tradition of gritty underbelly, anti-Godfather-glamour, street crime movies in the Mean Streets mould, The Drop is penned by Dennis (Gone Baby Gone) Lehane, directed by Belgian Michaël (Bullhead) Roskam, and features the late James Gandolfini in his final role, alongside Noomi Rapace, Tom Hardy, and the cutest pit bull puppy in Brooklyn.
Variety
pressTom Hardy gives another terrific performance as a Brooklyn bartender in writer Dennis Lehane's adaptation of his own short story.
Time Out
pressThe Drop putters along in a dozy register, less a simmering pot than a cooling one.
The Dissolve
pressThe entire film vibrates with understated tension, but almost never raises its voice above a hissed threat or a discomfited mutter.
Rolling Stone
pressGives us one more chance to salute the formidable talent of a remarkable actor [James Gandolfini] who died in June 2013 at age 51.
Hollywood Reporter
pressThe picture belongs to Tom Hardy, whose astonishingly sensitive performance even the great James Gandolfini steps gently around.
Empire Magazine
pressThe cute puppy almost steals the show but Hardy is ace and quite the watchable chameleon in his surprising switch from lovable dumb ox to cannier-than-we-thought.
Go for Gandolfini
I went to see this because it was James Gandolfini's last film before he died :( I loved the Supranos and was so sad to hear when he passed. He is the best things about this film in my opinion he steels the show from Tom Hardy who seems like he is trying to hard. The plot is a bit cliche and over drawn which makes it hard to really care about the...
Surprisingly entertaining
When the reviewer wrote 'Tom Hardy with a puppy' I rolled my eyes and though 'no, no no - not my kind of film'. However I was pleasantly surprised. The direction is really what saves this from being a bag full of cliches and leaves you pondering a question you might not otherwise ever think of.
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