Drop: A Strong Start Crumbles into Confusing Absurdity

This movie starts with just enough intrigue and visual flair to grab your attention, but it quickly squanders that promise. The premise is incredibly simple, the kind that might’ve worked better as a short film or even a TikTok skit. Stretching it out to feature length only exposes how little substance there is. Scenes are unnecessarily drawn out, padding time rather than building suspense or depth. As a result, the pacing suffers significantly, and any initial tension fizzles out fast.

The characters are overwritten, yet paradoxically underdeveloped. You get the sense that the script is trying too hard to make everyone feel complex and layered, but without giving the actors anything meaningful to work with. Meghann Fahy gives it a real shot—she brings sincerity and effort to her performance, but unfortunately, the rest of the cast doesn’t rise to the occasion. Most deliver flat, lifeless performances that make it hard to stay emotionally invested.

What little suspense the movie manages to build early on quickly gives way to predictability. There’s a point where you can almost guess how each scene will unfold, which drains the experience of any real thrill. Worse still, once the “big reveal” happens, the film takes an unforgivable nosedive into absurdity. It shifts into a tone that feels completely at odds with the rest of the story: wacky, exaggerated, and trying far too hard to be more ambitious than the setup can support.

The antagonists’ motivations are baffling, making the final stretch of the film feel like a different, much less coherent movie. It’s as if the filmmakers realized how thin the concept was and decided to overcompensate with wild plot swings and implausible behavior. Instead of elevating the narrative, it only adds to the confusion and disconnection.

If there’s one thing the film has going for it, it’s the look. The cinematography is solid, and the aesthetic choices are appealing enough to catch your eye in the opening moments. But good visuals can’t save a script that lacks clarity, momentum, and emotional grounding.

Ultimately, this is a forgettable film. It starts off promising but quickly devolves into a mess of overacting, underwritten ideas, and confusing choices. Best used as background noise while you scroll your phone.