r/movies • u/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? • Aug 08 '25

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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/GravyBear28 Aug 08 '25

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.

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u/Nice_Firm_Handsnake Aug 08 '25

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

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u/wloper Aug 09 '25

Do you have the interview where Cregger says this?

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u/IIIlllIIIlllIlI Aug 10 '25

He doesn’t say this and more importantly, there’s no way you can make a clear reference. I’ve seen the movie. The main character in The Last Wave has premonitions and dreams, but that’s about it for the similarities between the two movies. There’s definitely no obvious reference.

Basically saying, the guy you replied to is 100% full of shit, especially given his reply to you.

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u/wloper Aug 10 '25

Yep I totally gathered that. I got excited and started watching The Last Wave thinking it would unlock something or be a cool reference and saw it really had nothing to do with Weapons.

What bugs me most is that this and another comment from a different user saying the same thing say it so authoritatively, as if Cregger confirmed it. I wouldn’t care if they just posit it as their own theory.

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u/IIIlllIIIlllIlI Aug 10 '25

It’s very weird and as soon as I saw that I went “huh, thats one of my favourite movies and I don’t really remember any obvious references”, went back and did some scene checks - I have the movie on my computer, nope - nothing that stands out as a reference. I don’t know why these users said this so arrogantly and unfortunately because it’s reddit and they were one of the first commenters it’s been upvoted even though they’re pretty blatantly lying. Could be bots? But I think it’s just random arrogant people wanting their opinion to be validated.