Rent Drop (2025)

One good performance doesn't rescue a date from hell… - Drop review by griggs

Drop starts promisingly enough, but it quickly runs out of steam. The second act is a slog—just the same argument on repeat, like a broken record bumping into itself. No one on a date would actually stick around for this nonsense. The final ten minutes go full bananas (kind of fun, I’ll admit), but by then, the damage is done. Meghann Fahy is the one saving grace, grounding it all with a performance far better than the script deserves.

Absurd and boring - Drop review by Alphaville

In this ridiculous one-note, mostly one-location drama, our heroine is on a blind date in a restaurant while an unknown baddie keeps threatening her family on her phone. It’s unbelievable, repetitive, boring… As if in recognition of this, the film opens with a supposed flash forward action teaser to encourage the viewer to keep watching. Don’t hold your breath. This ruse is always an admission of failure. What action occurs at the end is just comedy ridiculous anyway. Just shut that irritating pinging phone off!

So-so, Unbelievable, Woke, OTT By-Numbers Dating Thriller - Drop review by PV

OK so the start of the extras (I only watched a bit of the first short) says that the man is the damsel in distress getting saved by the woman who now has agency, and is labelled brave, strong and independent for overcoming past trauma. Like most movies from Hollywood these days, it is infected with a nasty tang of wokery with added #metoo juice which all leaves a bitter and boring taste.

To say you have to suspend your disbelief to watch this to the end is the understatement of the century, and maybe even two or three. It is absurd, all of it. The flashbacks and the twisty, incredible, patience-testing plot. I asked myself WHY BOTHER. Why didn't they XYZ instead? No spoilers but really, WHAT A FAFF! And WHERE are the police?

As with most TV drama now, male characters can be one of two things - violent abusive pervy monsters, or, at best, clueless buffoons. ALL male characters here fall into one or t'other except to the sidekick bland two-dimensional man Henry she is dating, and her son (a typical trick to show us what a selfless GOODIE she is). If that couples chemisty were put in a chemistry set, it';s be invisible...

2 stars. Meh