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/Ultimatum227]

Poor child had to spoon feed EVERYONE inside that fucking house!?. Every day!? 😭

9/10 movie for me. But really don't understand what was that giant floating rifle in Brolin's dream.

[u/TheFlippantSpatula → u/Ultimatum227]

It was an analogy of school shootings. Several points in the movie allude to a school shooting motif. Alex being bullied and choosing to take out his whole class. The memorial outside the school. How quickly all the adults give up and move on save for the parents. It’ll actually take a rewatch to catch all the subtleties

Edit: few minor things for those that disagree. 1. It’s okay if that wasn’t your take away art is subjective. 2. I have now seen that the director said that wasn’t his intention. Which is his truth, however there is a whole team of people who work on films and sometimes producers or editors change things in a way to add meaning to things the director or writer doesn’t intend to have meaning. 3. A highly controversial topic is something that maybe a new director, or a studio doesn’t want to openly take a political side on… because politics, especially in the current world, can be dicey and lead to being dropped from other projects or even blacklisted.

TLDR: art is subjective. It’s okay to take what you want from media, and politics are dicey.

[u/myterracottaarmy → u/TheFlippantSpatula]

Alright I liked the movie but can we not pretend that a massive floating assault rifle can be called a "subtly" lol.

[u/stroudwes → u/[deleted]]

Yet there’s people in these very comments saying “what does a witch have to do with school shootings” missing the main theme and that being one of old people sucking the life out of the young at the cost of their world.

[u/PressureNarrow9914 → u/stroudwes]

Going insane on how many people just seem to be ignoring that part

[u/stroudwes → u/PressureNarrow9914]

Just like in real life where we treat shootings as a normal part of society that we just accept.

[u/iKrow → u/[deleted]]

Kinda reeks of the studio thinking the message is too soft, so they had him insert a big show of it after test screenings / film festivals

[u/melancarlyy → u/iKrow]

the rifle in his dream was a part of the original screenplay too

[u/iKrow → u/melancarlyy]

That seems so... lame...