Low budget junk.Sad story line that makes you sick.Wasted 1 1/2 hrs of my life that i will never get back.If you have a couple thousand dollars you can make this film.After DVD sales you might make 10 thousand.Don't waste your time believe me.It has sean young it,woo hoo with some boob shots(if its even her)with little lines from her.Just a guy running around a parking garage the whole movie.If your bored and have little to do watch this movie.If you have a pencil or a knife around stick it straight thru your eye and twist it to the right really hard.Better yet if you have a fast car drive it really fast into the director of this movie.
8 Reviews
This movie is OK
wrlang16 July 2006
You have to appreciate Sean Young in any movie. Classic beauty, from Blade Runner right up till The Drop. This story is about a college student Carter (Bondies) who replies to a bulletin board ad to drive a car from San Francisco to a Los Angeles parking garage for $5,000. He interviews with the client in an odd environment and they mutually agree Carter should take the job. Carter drives to LA uneventfully and arrives In the dead of night. But can't resist the desire to see what he is really transporting and he discovers a key and a briefcase with contents that he doesn't like one bit. Things move a little faster after that as Carter hides the case and then tries to escape from the garage. The people Carter was supposed to deliver the car and case to turn up. Ivy (Young) and Mr. Zero (Savage) as well as their thugs chase Carter around the garage. During the chase Zero and his thugs seem to talk telepathically with Carter and try to convince him to turn in the case by threatening his family, girlfriend, and his life. This also gives the viewer some missing storyline background. Once they capture Carter, the twists start as Carter tries to save mankind. There are a large number of flashbacks for just about everyone in the film to make the garage chase more interesting, but some are indiscernible from current events. The cinematography is good and close ups make the lack of scenery irrelevant. It is nothing like the movie named The Transporter and pretty much stands on it's own as a movie that marries multiple themes. Some things in the movie just don't fit together well and some major questions are left up to the viewer's assumptions. I watch about 10 movies each week mainly while I do paper work and this is very far from the worst movie I have ever seen. If you like unique and fresh plots, don't bother. If you like to see how familiar faces bring their touch to the screen it can be worth watching.
The worst film of the year
gleong-15 November 2006
Someone decided to make a thriller and had no money for a decent set, so they probably drove into an overnight car park and made up the story to go with it. It was such a cheap movie that they did could not fill up the car park with more than two or three cars on each level - and the hero (who is not even hunky) manages to dodge his pursuers for the best part of an hour hiding behind and under cars. They obviously had no lighting rig of any sort either.
Just to pad it out, the director keeps repeating the same old flashbacks, some times it is just the sound track. This is so irritating that after the sixth repeat of any particular flashback, you feel like throwing any handy projectile at your TV screen.
The principal villain turns in a really disinterested performance. Well, what do you expect, when the script is so lame. The stupid young man who opens the parcel he is paid to deliver, and decides he must "save the world" has absolutely no survival skills - twice he could have turned the tables but lamely does not take advantage of the opportunity. His girl friend is no less idiotic.
The worst atrocity is the beautiful and talented Sean Young accepting this acting assignment. She must be desperate. Her presence is never explained and her lines are appalling.
What a waste of time. Take heed of this and other warnings on these pages. You will regret it if you don't and be angry enough to spend another fifteen minutes complaining in a review the film does not deserve.
Just to pad it out, the director keeps repeating the same old flashbacks, some times it is just the sound track. This is so irritating that after the sixth repeat of any particular flashback, you feel like throwing any handy projectile at your TV screen.
The principal villain turns in a really disinterested performance. Well, what do you expect, when the script is so lame. The stupid young man who opens the parcel he is paid to deliver, and decides he must "save the world" has absolutely no survival skills - twice he could have turned the tables but lamely does not take advantage of the opportunity. His girl friend is no less idiotic.
The worst atrocity is the beautiful and talented Sean Young accepting this acting assignment. She must be desperate. Her presence is never explained and her lines are appalling.
What a waste of time. Take heed of this and other warnings on these pages. You will regret it if you don't and be angry enough to spend another fifteen minutes complaining in a review the film does not deserve.
One of the worst of all time
albrechtcm29 July 2016
This film is so bad, so poorly made, that it's really hard to know where to start. I don't often write critiques on films because I realize that every filmmaker has a different vision and things don't always work out as expected. Besides, often with movies, it's the old problem of too many chefs in the kitchen at one time. But not even the beautiful and talented Sean Young or not-so- beautiful, especially here, John Savage, can help. From the moment the movie started I had a sudden bad feeling that was right on the mark. It started without any sense of purpose and then moved to a job interviewer who spent endless moments smoking a cigarette in a dark room while he interviewed a job applicant. This dragged on for an impossibly long time, often repeating itself and inserting confusing flashes of possibilities the job seeker was apparently imagining as the employer talked. Offered $5,000, half now and half on delivery, to drive a vehicle from San Francisco to Los Angeles (why any of this we'll never know), the kid, smart as he appears to be, jumps at the chance and away he goes. Again, due to the blotchy amateurish editing that drags on throughout the film, the kid drives and drives and drives and eventually at the end of our tether, he arrives at a huge nearly empty parking garage in Los Angeles. The old amateurish filler of frightening dreams helps kill time while the driver and the poor audience patiently waits. Finally, after getting plenty of rest, the kid peeks into the glove compartment where he finds an envelope containing a key. His immediate instinct is to go open the trunk where a briefcase awaits so he naturally has to open the case. From the brilliant light that emanates from the case, we think maybe it's like that old Ralph Meeker(Mike Hammer) flick with radioactive stuff, but we'll never really know for sure what it was. Again for obscure reasons we'll never know, the kid hides the briefcase and when eventually a couple of rough fellows turn up to collect what is referred to as "the package" (not even a remote relative of The Transporter Franchise), and seeing no package, they become belligerent. Savage then turns up and spends half an hour talking to himself and looking tired and worn while the henchmen chase the kid around up and down and through the parking garage. More than once he is right at the open entrance but he'd rather go back and run around the garage some more. Several times the men corner him and demand to know where he has hidden the briefcase, but he won't talk. So they continue to chase him around endlessly shooting wildly at him, forgetting obviously, that if he's dead he can't tell them where he hid the briefcase. One might think an all out war in the dead of night might result in a call to the police, but no. Never happens. Probably no money left to hire police. I don't want to give away what is supposed, I think, to be a surprise twist, but I can only say that I don't expect a lot of CGI or extravagant sets, etc. on a Top Ramen budget, but such a misguided unintelligent script, utterly impossible lack of direction and editing that a five-year old could have done better. Like, what's with the occasional flashes of little things that went before and have no connection to what is going on now? I'll tell you what. In writing its called padding. All the flashbacks are just padding as is the tiresome drive from SF to LA. Even the initial interview is so drawn out with the interviewer smoking a full pack of cigarettes that's it's already very discouraging. Lots of padding, very little story and/or money and the end result: This is not a movie and should never have been made. How could Ms Young and Mr. Savage be so desperate as to allow themselves to be sucked into this mess?
This is one TERRIBLE movie!
Wizard-825 February 2012
The premise of the movie - a young man trapped in a parking garage and evading bad guys pursing him - isn't a bad one. The idea of adding supernatural elements to this premise also could have worked. However, the way that those ideas were executed here make for one of the worst movies I have seen in a long, long time. It seems like EVERYTHING about this movie is botched. Technically, the movie is a mess; the photography is dark and murky, the lighting is inadequate throughout, and the musical score is harsh and annoying. But what's even worse is the way the movie is written and directed. The movie makes no sense, with its constant meandering making you wonder in every scene if what we are seeing is "real" or a fantasy of one of the characters. It's so constantly confusing, I don't know how the heck I managed to watch the entire movie without hitting the eject button on my DVD player. One thing's for certain: I'm not going to seek out any other movies made by this director!
Worst movie ever!!!
unknwn_id17 November 2006
This movie is the worst movie ever! Believe me i have seen a lot bad of movies in my life but from now on this is my nr1 WORST movie ever. Congrats.. I thought that nothing could ever beat Alone in the dark but now i know that i couldn't be more wrong. The movie starts bad and it gets worser by the minute.. Really it is that bad.
There are so many things that irritate me about this movie that if i think of it again i just want to keep smashing my head against the wall until i pass out. The camera-work is so bad, it looks that the camera-dude for the first time in his life had a cam in his hands and just randomly started to push all buttons to see what what would happen.
And then there is the acting.. Omg the worst part of the movie.. It just looks that the actors read their lines of text from the back-palm of their hands, especially the main-dude with his girlfriend.. I can remember a phone conversation between them that with no doubt is one of the worst acting performances ever known to mankind, i have seen robots on the discovery channel that where better in expressing their self more convincing then these 2.
There are about a 1000 more things bad about this movie but i don''t want to spend anymore time on this trash. DON'T WATCH THIS MOVIE! EVER!
There are so many things that irritate me about this movie that if i think of it again i just want to keep smashing my head against the wall until i pass out. The camera-work is so bad, it looks that the camera-dude for the first time in his life had a cam in his hands and just randomly started to push all buttons to see what what would happen.
And then there is the acting.. Omg the worst part of the movie.. It just looks that the actors read their lines of text from the back-palm of their hands, especially the main-dude with his girlfriend.. I can remember a phone conversation between them that with no doubt is one of the worst acting performances ever known to mankind, i have seen robots on the discovery channel that where better in expressing their self more convincing then these 2.
There are about a 1000 more things bad about this movie but i don''t want to spend anymore time on this trash. DON'T WATCH THIS MOVIE! EVER!
I also hated this movie.
cherryk-121 January 2007
The acting, dialog, & action were all terrible in this film. There is a scene in the parking ramp where the bad guys are stalking the main character, and even though he is crouching behind one of only two cars in the lot, they can't find him. And even though his cell phone doesn't get any reception in the parking ramp, the bad guy keeps taking out HIS cell phone & making calls with no trouble. Also, after the main character gets beaten up, his face looks purple, like the makeup person just colored his face with purple powder. A really terrible film that I kept hoping would get better, but it never did. I can't imagine why Sean Young agreed to be in this movie. She is usually such a terrific actress.
Still Dropping...
azathothpwiggins17 March 2022
In THE DROP, a man named Carter (Michael Bondies) drives his car from San Francisco to Los Angeles, never knowing that he's transporting pure eeevil in his trunk.
Once he arrives at his destination, it seems as though something interesting is about to happen.
Nope.
Carter sits in his car in a parking garage for what feels like a century watching people stroll by. We begin to wonder if this is a trick, some sort of endurance test.
Then, the bad guys arrive. Hooray! Let the action begin. Now, they run around the parking structure for yet another eternity to no avail. John Savage does his best grimacing and Sean Young looks mysterious, all while a great deal of nothingness occurs.
The End.
My friends, watching this "movie" is like dropping an anvil on your foot. Both feet. Hell, bring on the anvil!
Don't do this to yourselves...
Once he arrives at his destination, it seems as though something interesting is about to happen.
Nope.
Carter sits in his car in a parking garage for what feels like a century watching people stroll by. We begin to wonder if this is a trick, some sort of endurance test.
Then, the bad guys arrive. Hooray! Let the action begin. Now, they run around the parking structure for yet another eternity to no avail. John Savage does his best grimacing and Sean Young looks mysterious, all while a great deal of nothingness occurs.
The End.
My friends, watching this "movie" is like dropping an anvil on your foot. Both feet. Hell, bring on the anvil!
Don't do this to yourselves...
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