Written by James M. Tate / 9/13/2014 / 2 Comments / 2014 , crime , james gandolfini , neo noir , suspense , tom hardy
TOM HARDY & JAMES GANDOLFINI IN THE DROP
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year: 2014 rating: ***1/2 |
The partners have obviously been through the mill but now, in a sort of deadpan retirement mode, they're merely used as pawns, especially Bob… Yet he’s got something to live for: After finding the puppy bloodied up in a trashcan, he raises it like a child along with ingénue Nadia (Noomi Rapace).
Promoted as a gangster style thriller, THE DROP is actually a slowburn character-study where Bob is either mildly pestered by a cop after a pivotal robbery, or is verbally bullied by a local thug who claims to have owned the dog, and wants it back... with a price. Gandolfini’s intentions are a bit muddled further into the slowburn Neo Noir storyline, making Hardy the one to center on. He’s the kind of guy who must be hiding something, or holding back – or holding back something he’s trying to hide. And that’s what makes this cinematic sheep in wolf's clothing, centering on a wolf in sheep's clothing, eventually pay off in silver dollars.
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Tom Hardy is one of the few actors around that'll get me interested in a movie they are in. I might have to see this. My list is getting long, time to cross some out by actually going to the movie theater.
ReplyDeleteGreat review.
yeah CROSS some time for movies!
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