Robert Pattinson | A Screenwriters Perspective: Current and Past Movies.

The new movie “The Drama” starring Robert Pattinson as Charlie and Zendaya as Emma starts out as a typical relationship, engagement, and eventual marriage, but soon degrades into an uncomfortable, strange and very risky direction, where, during a “Truth or Dare” Emma tells her husband and two friends about a thought she had at age 15, where she was considering killing her fellow students in a school sdhooting. Clearly, if there had been any recent school shooting in the United States, this movie would not have been released on April 3, 2026, if ever. I was amazed that a screenplay like this was greenlit and two famous and very bankable stars like Pattinson and Zendaya agreed to act in this movie, considering the extremely sensitive subject of school shootings. Every time we all think that we have not seen a school shooting in a while, this is when another one or several more happen again.

The rest of this story is about the problems that Emma and Charlie understandably have in their relationship after this horrendous revelation about Emma is known. Another way of looking at this story is, why would Emma ever admit to anyone that she had sick thoughts of shooting many school children when she was 15 years old?

There is a major climax during Charlie and Emma’s wedding, and I remember wondering why they got married, considering Charlie’s many episodes of huge doubt about Emma’s mental health.

The Rotten Tomatoes are a way too high 79%, with my rating at 50%, mainly for the very bad premise of this movie, which does not give respect to the many victims of school shootings in this country. This film is another one to miss.

The Oscar winner for Best Picture 2019 was “Parasite”, a win that had more to do with something new, in this case having a movie made in South Korea and a South Korean director, Bong Joon Ho win two major awards. In 2019, two better films were passed over for best picture, “A Marriage Story”, and “The Irishman”.

Once a famous director wins an Oscar for Best Picture and Best Director, they have the power to write their own ticket to receive funding to produce any movie they want for years into the future. Too often, having the clout to fund and produce a new movie results in a horrible film. A great recent example of this is Francis Ford Coppola’s movie from last year “Megalopolis”, when Coppola spent 124 million dollars of his own money to produce one of the worst movies ever made.

While the new movie “Mikey 17” is not as bad as Megalopolis, it is bad enough to make any top ten list for one of the worst movies ever released. Starting with the insane logline: “In a futuristic world on another planet, an expendable worker on a colonization mission, dies many times and then is recreated using a 3D printing machine that can create clones of any human being”. What is the point of the main character Mickey Barnes, played by Robert Pattinson, dying 17 times in a row, and then being recreated is never really explained in this story. There is another character in this film who appears several times dressed as a giant rooster – also never explained, even for those in the audience who have not fallen into a coma.

The entire film is about following Mickey Barnes as he falls victim and dies in one accident after another, and then winds up back again in the human cloning machine. The screenplay is nonsensical, disjoined, and largely makes no sense. Inside of 30 minutes, anyone watching this mess is looking at their watch, hoping for a quick end to this torture, which unfortunately is way too long at 2 hours and 17 minutes.

Other actors in this bad movie include Steven Yeun, Mark Ruffalo, and Toni Collette and I can only conclude that these well-known actors agreed to act in this movie for an opportunity to work with an Academy Award-winning director – Bong Joon Ho – and then forgot to read the screenplay he wrote.

The Rotten Tomatoes ratings for this film are an insanely high 79%, that is all about the new trend in Hollywood where something never seen before, is more important than quality. My rating, only for some of the special effects is 20%, and a recommendation to run from this disaster of 2 hours.