The Drop

I am a fan of Tom Hardy. I think he is a great actor. So I got this film because he is in it, despite the rather dull sounding summary.

There are other famous actors in it too. Apparently it was the late James Gandolfini's last role. And the rather lovely but hard to spell Noomi Rapace features too.

The story is quite good. Bob finds an injured dog in a trash can. I spent the rest of the film worrying that the dog would get hurt again by the previous evil owner.

Oh, and some people get beaten up and killed too.

SPOILERS

I'm not going to go over the whole plot. It is very clever though how everything seems to be going on around Bob with him helpless. And yet you always feel that he could do more if he wanted... Couldn't he?

Is he really going to give all that money to Deeds for the dog? No of course he isn't. What do you think the gun is for?

But then when Bob confesses to Deeds that he killed the man Deeds was notorious for killing... You don't even have time to take it in before Bob shoots Deeds.

Which captures Bob perfectly. He goes under the radar. Surprises everyone, including the viewer. He's got the drop on us.

So at the end you realise that the title isn't about the money, it's about Bob.