My husband and I love the late and great James Gandolfini.
We were big fans of The Sopranos on HBO and never missed a show from its start
in 1999 to its finale in 2007.
Dan and I enjoy gangster shows especially over the edge gangster shows. For our thirty fifth wedding anniversary, we decided to go see The Drop which is directed by Michael R. Roskam and stars Tom Hardy as Bob, Noomi Rapace as Nadia and James Gandolfini as Cousin Marv.
Dan and I enjoy gangster shows especially over the edge gangster shows. For our thirty fifth wedding anniversary, we decided to go see The Drop which is directed by Michael R. Roskam and stars Tom Hardy as Bob, Noomi Rapace as Nadia and James Gandolfini as Cousin Marv.
We were not disappointed in the film which tells about the
sequence of events after a neighborhood bar is robbed by two masked bandits.
This was no ordinary bar but a place where the mob’s money is kept until it can
be moved or laundered.
Cousin Marv (James Gandolfini) has to make up for the money
stolen from the cash register with his own funds. The Russian Mob is way nastier
than the Italian Mob ever was. There is no loyalty with this new breed of mob
leaders and Marv and his bartender cousin, Bob (Tom Hardy), fear for their lives
as they try to make things right.
The situation is made more impossible when the quiet and
introverted Bob finds an abused pit ball puppy in a trashcan belonging to a
waitress with a dark past. Nadia (Noomi Rapace), like the puppy, have been brutally
abused and the abuser has been recently released from prison. Bob’s tender care
of the injured puppy and his friendship with Nadia is the focal point of the
film as all hell breaks loose.
The acting is superb as is the script. This film is a “sit
on the edge of your seat” drama that catches you by surprise and takes you to
the dark side, but the ending was totally unexpected. I give it a five star rating. So let me make an offer that you can't refuse! Go see the film. Capish?
You'll be missed James Gandolfini 1961-2013
