There are few ways for a film to date itself quite like a premise entirely reliant on a piece of trendy technology, Try as Apple might to deny it, there’s simply no way of knowing whether or not the famed AirDrop feature will constitute a lasting part of our everyday experiences in the same manner as the phones on which it’s used. Not to suggest that Christopher Landon’s “Drop” is in any way framed like a shameless ad for the iPhone feature. On the contrary, the particular use of the program in this film may very well leave Tim Cook shaking in his turtleneck.

Of course, this would be ignoring the fact that “Drop” is, in premise, not all that dissimilar to an entirely different confined thriller made over a decade ago—switch its high-rise restaurant setting for an airplane, its AirDrop gimmick for a few simple anonymous texts,...