The Drop
Director: Michael R. Roskam
Cast: Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, James Gandolfini, Matthias Schoenaerts, and John Ortiz.
Rated R for some strong violence and pervasive language.
September has been pretty lame at the theaters until this little thriller decided to show up. It's been two years since Tom Hardy has been on the big screen until his one-man show in the tense drama, Locke, which hit theaters earlier this year. Now Hardy is back in another small film that marks the last onscreen performance from the late James Gandolfini. Author Dennis Lehane, who wrote the novels Mystic River, Shutter Island, and Gone Baby Gone, writes the screenplay here based off his own short story, and once again he delivers a tense crime drama.
