The Drop (Roskam, 2014)
Is there anyone among us that doesn’t miss James Gandolfini?
What a preposterous talent – and evidently an all-round good guy – taken from us far too young.
The Drop was his final role.
I reviewed it on 4 December 2014 for RNZ’s Nine to Noon show (along with Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies and the fashion documentary Advanced Style) so I thought I would transcribe that review for you here. Rookie mistake as it turns out I only left myself about 20 seconds for The Drop which amounted to this:
Poor old James Gandolfini’s last film, Tom Hardy, plays a barman in New York who gets embroiled into various mafia corruption type efforts.
It’s a thriller written by Dennis Lehane, who is a fantastic writer and brilliantly performed by all concerned Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, James Gandolfini, Mattias Schoenerts.
Brilliant.
So there you have it, that’s the kind of deep analysis that gets you the big bucks on RNZ.
Where to watch The Drop
Aotearoa, Australia, Ireland, UK: Streaming on Disney+
Canada, India, USA: Digital rental
