Movie Review: The Drop

     Hey, everyone. I had a nice day today. I stayed home all day. I played some songs on the keyboard. Though I had the blues, early in the day, as so often happens, they disappeared as I sang a few songs. Just like Neil Diamond promised. Ha, ha.
     After that I played a massive amount of Far Cry Primal. I played for hours, opening up a new territory, just like Lewis and Clark. We played through a quest called something like The Bloodfang Cave. It was good for a Sunday afternoon adventure with minimal risk.
      As the evening ripened, we watched a good movie that I had never heard of. It was called The Drop. It starred Tom Hardy as Bob, a bartender in New York. The bar where he works is mob owned and the place is a drop for sports bets, a book as it used to be called. Well, his cousin Marv works there and is needing money. He arranges for some guys to rob the joint and give him (Marv) part of the money.
     Marv (James Gandolfini) sort of gets away with it that time. But he wants a good wad of cash so he decides to have the bar robbed again during the Super Bowl. The guy he picks to rob the place is the Ex of the lady that Bob is seeing, Nadia. (Nadia is played by the talented Naomi Rapace.) Her ex is a nut case named Eric Deeds. He is a bully who beat her and beat up her cute pup and threw him in a garbage can.
Bob is a good-natured, slow guy in the mode of Rocky Balboa. Much to my amusement Bob names his new dog Rocco. He meets Nadia when he hears the pup's plaintive cries from her garbage can as he walks down the street. I guess the less than insightful Nadia figures Bob for a garbage thief and pulls a gun on him. I suppose that kind of intro has to lead to amore, so they have a relationship. No wonder so many lonely guys buy a dog and stroll around a park, hoping for love.
Anyway, the erstwhile bar robbing, dog-beating, woman-abusing a-hole Eric also thinks he can swindle Bob out of $10,000 by threatening to take 'his' dog back.
   Will Bob be able to save Nadia from Eric? Will Bob be able to save the bar and the mob's money from Eric? Will Bob be able to save his own $10,000 from Eric? Will Marv manage to commit suicide by stealing from gangsters? Will Marv's decrepit father be kicked out of a nursing home due to lack of payment? Watch this compelling movie and learn the facts.
This is a very good movie. Well acted and directed. I'd call it 4 stars out of 5 and I recommend it.
   From the author's green retreat, I'm CE Wills.

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