Film Review: DROP (2025): An Enjoyable and Suspenseful Thriller Worth Falling For

Drop Review

Drop (2025) Film Review, a movie directed by Christopher Landon, written by Jillian Jacobs and Chris Roach and starring Meghann Fahy, Brandon Sklenar, Violett Beane, Jacob Robinson, Reed Diamond, Gabrielle Ryan, Jeffery Self, Ed Weeks, Ben Pelletier, Travis Nelson, Saoirse Hayden, Fiona Browne, Stephanie Karam, Michael Shea and Niamh McHenry.

Director Christopher Landon brings Drop to the screen, a tense thriller with serious Hitchcockian vibes that has a plot that manages to sustain interests despite a few implausible scenarios along the way. Meghann Fahy is the star of Drop and if her performance didn’t captivate the viewer, the whole film would fall apart. Luckily, Fahy creates a likable character who drives the suspenseful plot of Drop in such a way that audiences will want to stay with her (and root for her) for the duration of the whole entire movie.

Fahy plays Violet, a woman with a troubled past who loves her young son, Toby (Jacob Robinson). Violet is about to go on a date with a man she’s been speaking to on-line named Henry (the handsome and accomplished Brandon Sklenar). With Violet’s sister, Jen (Violett Beane) positioned as the babysitter, it doesn’t seem anything could go wrong. In short order, the film sets most of its action in a restaurant in the middle of a high-rise building where Violet arrives first before Henry does. Violet meets an older gentleman who’s waiting for a blind date. He wishes her luck, and she settles into the night as Henry eventually shows up for dinner.

As the plot gets under way, Violet starts getting creepy “drops” on her phone from an anonymous caller who seems to have access to Violet’s house through cameras in which the creep can see Toby. Something is being planned by this sinister person on the other end of the drop and Violet is forbidden from telling Henry anything. Henry is soon ready to leave because of the fact that Violet is acting weird, but she kisses him to keep him interested.

Meanwhile, the tune from the show “Baby Shark” is played in the background of the restaurant at Violet’s early request by a musician on hand. Violet sends a twenty-dollar bill to him with a secret message written on it. Then there’s the waiter (a hilarious Jeffery Self) who wants to do comedy improv on the side and kills time sharing details about is personal life before the couple orders something from the menu. Can any of these strange guys Violet meets in the restaurant be the creep who’s texting her? This film keeps the audience on pins and needles as it goes back and forth between several suspects until the psycho is unveiled, and the audience definitely won’t be disappointed by the final confrontation between Violet and the madman at the helm of the film.

Drop reminded me of M. Night Shyamalan’s Trap. Both films are about the same in terms of overall quality, but Drop carries more of the premise in the restaurant setting than Trap carried its own story in the stadium in which it was set. Landon’s movie doesn’t have a really great set of details behind the story that it features, yet the cinematic scope of the picture makes it worthwhile. Text messages appear on the screen in big letters to heighten the suspense and the movie makes every character a suspect in true Hitchcockian style. If Alfred Hitchcock were working today and alive, he’d probably do something like Drop (and, of course, Trap). Either that or he’d be proud of filmmakers like Landon.

Fahy is a great talent who carries the weight of the movie on her shoulders. Even Sklenar’s character is less important since he’s not in on the plot details that Fahy’s Violet is aware of. Though both of them have nice chemistry together, this is clearly Fahy’s movie all the way through. As the twists and turns are revealed, some of them are admittedly a bit underwhelming in nature, yet the movie makes up for this with some “big” scenes, including the surprising use of a hockey puck that is given to Violet as a gift for her son.

Drop is certainly an intense thrill ride that doesn’t let up. At a mean and lean 100-minutes, the movie surprisingly never outwears its welcome. If Landon had kept the whole movie in the restaurant, he would have been a genius, but at the same time, most of it is set in the one location which is quite impressive. Landon builds suspense masterfully and the film feels like a roller coaster ride that could eventually inspire some kind of attraction at Universal. Though the film isn’t a horror picture, the level of the suspense is amped up quite a bit so that when Violet is giving a drink to someone that could kill that person, viewers are likely to be on the edge of their seats. Isn’t that the most important thing for a thriller to accomplish anyway? Drop everything and see this movie.

Rating: 7/10

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