'THE DRAMA'.......THE FEEL-BAD CRINGE ORDEAL OF THE YEAR....

 The Drama (2026)

     How much do we despise this movie with every fiber of our being?

       Let us count the ways.....

       Malignant, malicious, cynical and stupid in its conception.....a vomitorium using an incendiary American issue as a cheap, exploitive gimmick to goose up the box-office. 

         To hell with so-called writer-director Kristoffer Borgli, a film festival poseur who concocted this swirling stew of unbelievable characters trapped in equally noxious situations.

         Let's stop right here for a moment......

         There's no way to post a comprehensive review of this atrocity without discussing its Giant Outrageous Twist that has the entire pop culture community abuzz.

          So.....STOP HERE (SPOILER ALERT) if you prefer to see the film without knowing what it's going to spring on you.  

           Onward.....

           Handsome and too pretty-for-words Yuppies Charlie and Emma (Robert Pattinson, Zendaya) meet cute in a coffee shop. Awkwardly, of course. He pretends he read a book she's reading, at first not realizing she's deaf in one ear. 

           But she's adorable and he's a stuttering, stammering Brit puppy dog, (like a cartoony Hugh Grant), so true love takes hold and grows serious. 

           At a dinner with friends Mike and Rachel (Mamoudou Athie, Alana Heim) they play 'what's the worst thing you've ever done?' Mike and Charlie's secrets come out duly embarrassing and nasty while Rachel's ugly, cruel childhood reveal involves locking a mentally impaired young friend in a closet and abandoning him.....but she's such a self-satisfied, opinionated harpy, she's already pardoned herself for all past faults.

           Emma tops them all. As a bullied teen, she prepared to enter her school with her Army father's rifle and commit a mass shooting massacre.......but changed her mind when some other school shooter elsewhere grabbed all the headlines. 

           Her confession makes an instant implacable enemy out of Rachel, whose cousin's a school shooting survivor, now permanently wheelchair stricken. 

            And if you think matters couldn't get any worse, Charlie, a simpering whimpering spineless weakling and all-around snowflake, descends into a slow-motion nervous breakdown over Emma's admission.  All of this happens in the weeks leading up to Charlie and Emma's impending marriage. 

           Along the way to the expected cringe-worthy nuptials, the film tosses in a few other scenes and characters designed to make you sink lower in your chair and pray for the movie to end. It's the one and only talent that Kristoffer Borgli possesses - ....keeping an audience squirming in uncomfortable disbelief throughout the film's running time. 

           But here's what else we could detect about Borgli......his only thoughts about gun violence and the slaughter of innocent children in their classrooms come strictly from how much the plot twist could pump up his bottom line so he'd get lots of press and  more films to direct. 

            So nobody should mistake 'The Drama' for a serious movie or a movie with the slightest interest in dealing with the horrific issues it raises. At its foul, corrupted heart, this film's no different than the cheapie grindhouse sludge that fueled those all-night theaters that lined both sides of New York's 42nd Street. 

              That's it.....we've said more than enough about this worthless piece of steaming excrement. 

               Never was a rating easier to arrive at. An easy win of BQ's dreaded AFH Award.....

                To "The Drama"....the ABOMINATION FROM HELL rating.  Richly deserved for a film unfit for human consumption.