I’m not the best at facial recognition, especially during fast-paced action movies with many similar characters. But Drop (2025) likely used this on purpose.

Now, this could be the viewers reading too much and finding patterns where there’s just a thin plot and poor casting decisions. But the theory fits, so hear me out. 

Drop (2025) portrays a woman struggling to overcome PTSD from her abusive marriage. She doesn’t go out and refuses to give love another chance. She says she “never left that room” where her husband abused her, threatened to kill their child, and shot himself in the face.

The trauma from that event is embedded so deeply in her mind that she keeps experiencing the same thing over and over again, something common among victims of abuse. 

At the beginning of the movie, we see her crawling away from her husband, who’s trying to hurt her while the child cries at the side. The same scene is repeated at the end, with a masked man threatening to kill her as the child watches (and this time helps). 

It wasn’t just a similar scene replaying (in her mind?). When the killer took off his mask, he looked identical to her abusive ex-husband.

That’s perhaps because she keeps seeing her abuser in every man she meets. If that was the intention behind the movie, the casting was quite well done, as most viewers were confused. Every new man introduced seemed like the previous one had just returned. 

Here are a few examples.

A worker who visits the house: 

Her date and a waiter at the restaurant: 

Piano player at the restaurant: 

A man she keeps bumping into at the restaurant: 

A Reddit user described it well:

“Most men blurred into the same vague shape of people that could hurt you. I think it’s actually quite a subtle and poignant way to conceptualize abuse, and the way that it haunts the victim.”

The quality drop

Unfortunately, this was the only good thing about the movie. This is one of those movies with a great premise but lackluster execution. 

It’s full of stereotypes and typical plot armor: 

• The killer takes too long to hit, even for a straightforward shot. Of course, this is just meant to give our lead characters enough time to escape and attack. 
  
  
• The killer goes from being intimidating to so incompetent that he can’t overpower a 5-year-old and an untrained, unarmed woman. 
  
  
• It’s faster for the female lead to leave a luxury hotel, find a stranger’s car in the parking, and drive it home through traffic than the time it takes for the killer to walk a few steps and shoot a scared child and an unarmed woman right in front of him. 
  
  

• The male lead is unrealistically nice and patient, overlooking all the red flags because he likes the woman so much.
  
  
• The male lead suddenly gains some unexplained superpowers as he gets shot in the stomach, but immediately gets back up and, with a single arm, holds the weight of a grown woman hanging off a high-rise. Then, he pulls her up completely. Of course, he survives it all, so we get a happy ending.
  
  

The “Drop” theme

Despite the paper-thin plot with more holes than cheese, the movie plays well with the “Drop” theme.

• The lead receives threats through “drops” on her phone (similar to AirDrop). 
  
  
• She “drops” down the building. 
  
  
• She’s asked to add “drops” of poison to kill her date. 
  
  

Is Drop (2025) worth watching?

There’s not much to recommend here. If you want to watch a nail-biting thriller or a love story with a happy ending, there are many better options out there.

The twists don’t really thrill you, so this could have been a thought-provoking exploration of PTSD, taken the fun angle with more humor, or have interesting action sequences, but beside the “I see my abuser in every man I meet” concept and the “drop” theme, the movie drops the ball on a good concept. I would recommend that you too drop it.

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