Weirdly I cannot tell you if you made a better choice than watching “The Drama”. I saw it Tuesday (also now on an AMC subscription, but mostly because one of the worst maintained AMC theaters is the last and worst remaining theater of my youth).

I did almost walk out of “The Drama” at the titular reveal which happens surprisingly early in the movie. Early enough the trailers should just include the content warnings for it and save people a lot of trouble.

The ending of the movie was a well telegraphed by that point moment about second chances and was almost sweet, ignoring and intended to be in spite of the awful shit leading up to that denoument. It was almost redeeming for the film itself. Almost.

It wasn’t a movie without merits or hope, but it was an awful movie for most of its runtime bouyed mostly by a strong cast. I would watch Zendaya and Pattinson paint a bathroom. Their talents weren’t exactly wasted here, especially Pattinson’s now established talent for “most punchable face” as established in Mickey 17. Which mostly meant “The Drama” had me wanting to watch Mickey 17 again. (It does not help that I just finished Mickey 7, the book that movie was based on, and started into its sequel Antimatter Blues. The divergences between books and movie are fascinating.)