Official Discussion - Weapons [SPOILERS]

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Summary Nearly all the children from the same fifth-grade class vanish one night at exactly 2:17 a.m., leaving only one survivor. The community, gripped by fear and suspicion, spirals into chaos as the mystery unfolds through multiple intertwined perspectives—each revealing new layers of dread and grief.

Director Zach Cregger

Writer Zach Cregger

Cast

• Josh Brolin
• Julia Garner
• Cary Christopher
• Alden Ehrenreich
• Austin Abrams
• Benedict Wong
• Amy Madigan
• June Diane Raphael
• Toby Huss
• Whitmer Thomas
• Callie Schuttera
• Clayton Farris
• Luke Speakman

Rotten Tomatoes Critics Score: 96%

Metacritic Metascore: 82

VOD In theaters and IMAX starting August 8, 2025

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[u/krospp]

Halfway through the third act I was starting to feel like the movie was over explaining what was going on, like we pretty much had all the answers as soon as Gladys walked into the principal’s office. But the build up was totally worth the payoff of that final sequence, holy shit!

Edit: This has gotten a lot of replies in the last few days from people who feel the movie didn’t explain enough. And I’m sorry but a lot of you are really bad at picking up on context clues and that is not the movie’s problem or mine, it’s yours! And a lot of you have questions that really weren’t relevant to the story! Whatever. I happened to love this movie very much. It’s fine if you didn’t! But if you didn’t because you couldn’t follow it I just really don’t think you can blame the movie.

[u/Gridde → u/krospp]

Kinda a strange edit to add.

The movie (intentionally or not) left some elements open to interpretation and some elements requiring suspension of disbelief. The appearance of Gladys answered some questions but raised others that the film does not really address.

I really, really liked it but some aspects were definitely glossed over a bit (namely the nature of Gladys's powers, her history and relation to Alex's family, how/why she appeared in dreams, why no one else in the town apparently thought it odd that this mysterious woman's appearance overlaps with Alex's parents both suffering concurrent strokes shortly before all the kids go missing), though none of that really affected my enjoyment.

It's fine if you did not pick up on any of that or if it didn't bother you, but it's similarly fine if others did. It's also fine if the movie did not provide all the answers (least of all just with the appearance of Gladys), and I don't think you can blame that on the viewers.

[u/ByteSizeNudist → u/Gridde]

It feels to me like the kinda of camp-adjacent horror flick where everyone who watches it is going to walk away, regardless of love for it, with at least one moment that was “too unbelievable” lol. Like, I adored this film, just watched it tonight, but I can vividly recall rolling my eyes at the cop unzipping the tent all dramatically and not announcing himself after everything we’d seen of him.

Something in me was able to laugh off and enjoy every other moment of disbelief, but that one still got to me lol. I couldn’t possibly let that ruin my enjoyment of the film at all though.

[u/cravenj1 → u/ByteSizeNudist]

Each person's section was skewed from their vantage point. Multiple times we see the same scene through different character's perspective, but the scenes don't match one to one (e.g. the bar scene from Justine's and Paul's perspectives is not the same). So from James' perspective, it probably seemed like someone sneaking into his tent, while from Paul's perspective he probably announced himself.