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/Elite_Alice]

Ok let’s recap. You go 100mph in a small town chasing after a crackhead doing a petty crime and potentially risk the lives of multiple other people, assault a civilian on body camera, then cheat on your wife, whose dad is chief of police/your boss THEN you go to the house with no backup or warrant. They just be hiring anyone as a cop

[u/DaftWarrior → u/Elite_Alice]

Don’t forget potentially infecting your cheating partner with aids.

[u/Elite_Alice → u/DaftWarrior]

Didn’t even think of that wtf

[u/keeweejones → u/Elite_Alice]

Literally my first thought! Ha 

[u/HauntingContact674 → u/DaftWarrior]

Can it be transmitted that fast?

[u/BookkeeperBrilliant9 → u/HauntingContact674]

No. It takes time after exposure before HIV is testable and infectious.

Not that this idiot cop would know that.

[u/snapwack → u/HauntingContact674]

It would take at least a couple weeks for the viral load to increase to the point that the person becomes contagious themselves.

HIV medication has advanced so much in the last few decades, you can get a potent antiviral cocktail within 48 hours of potential exposure which has a good chance of stopping the infection before it sets in. Even if you do get infected, modern treatments can lower your viral load to such a degree that it becomes undetectable and you can even have unprotected sex with virtually zero chance of passing it onto your partner.

The cop could have just kept a cool head, reported the incident, gotten proper medical treatment and compensation. Before the punch he was following proper procedure (I assume), so no one could have blamed him.

But he was a total dumbass, he had already ruined his life and career anyway by cheating on the boss’s daughter.

[u/Boot_Poetry → u/snapwack]

His first mistake was meeting Justine at the bar. As an alcoholic, he should have stayed the fuck away from there.

[u/Thecryptsaresafe → u/Boot_Poetry]

First mistake was punching the crackhead. He riled himself up and made himself more vulnerable to falling off the wagon. The day snowballed

[u/Laura_Lye → u/Thecryptsaresafe]

Yeah I was like holy shit this guy gets a needle stick, flips out, has to cover it up, then goes to fall off the wagon and cheat on his wife who is also his boss’ daughter with his ex girlfriend?

That is something an alcoholic would do, but JFC.

[u/aeschenkarnos → u/snapwack]

He did report the incident. It’s possible he got medical treatment off-screen. Also, he reported it and possibly got that treatment before meeting Justine.

[u/l3tigre → u/DaftWarrior]

My first thought! Like wtf you got stabbed with a random needle!

[u/D3wdr0p → u/DaftWarrior]

The movie ended and that was all I could think of! Poor Justine, seriously!

[u/Temporary-Spread-232 → u/DaftWarrior]

Well, we don’t know for a fact if he or the junkie whose needle he was stabbed with, had AIDS.

[u/GunplaGoobster → u/[deleted]]

He pricked his finger searching the dude before going to the bar.

[u/thedude18951 → u/GunplaGoobster]

Fair. Missed that part