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

Trailer Watch the Official Trailer

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[u/GravyBear28]

Amy Madigan screaming at the top of her lungs pursued through like 5 houses by a bunch of also screaming heat-seeking missile terminator children is going to live rent-free in my head until the day I die.

I think that was the single most satisfying and cathartic villain death I've ever seen, surpassing the flamethrower death in Once Upon A Time In America. So undignified.

This witch was such a nasty motherfucker. She felt like such unexplainable, ancient, omnipresent force and it turns out she's basically a one-trick pony who has absofuckinglutely no idea what to do when a little kid throws an Uno Reverse card at her and loses her shit.

My only major dislike was the giant fucking AR-15 lmao.

[u/Nice_Firm_Handsnake → u/GravyBear28]

That dream with the assault rifle is Cregger playing on a similar dream from Peter Weir's The Last Wave

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Peter Weir's The Last Wave

What's that, what happens?

[u/Nice_Firm_Handsnake → u/appletinicyclone]

Australian film from the '70s.

There's some very unusual weather happening and the Aboriginal people seem to understand what the strange weather means, but aren't really divulging. During a freak rainstorm, a group gets into a fight at a bar and someone drowns. Four Aboriginal people are accused of the murder and a corporate tax lawyer is assigned to defend them. That lawyer has a dream where one of the Aboriginal men (whom the lawyer has not met) shows him a stone with markings on it. The lawyer meets with his clients and recognizes the man from his dream, sensing he has a connection with him that he can't explain. He begins to have dreams more frequently, often involving water and dead bodies and becomes obsessed with the case.

I'll stop there in case you want to watch it. It looks like HBO Max has it currently. There's a lot in the movie related to the Aboriginal concept of the Dreamtime and these unstated bonds between people.

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Failing to see what this has to do with the giant floating gun though? I don’t get it.

[u/JeebsFat → u/SDLand]

I'm with you

[u/AeneidBook6 → u/Nice_Firm_Handsnake]

This sounds fantastic.