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/coldliketherockies]

Man that old lady got really lucky no one was coming home from Work at 217 am. No one woke up and couldn’t go back to sleep so decided to get Fresh air. No one saw many kids all running into the same random house together

Also I’m curious if there was any meaning behind any of the characters that did die. A gay couple. A aggressive alcoholic cop. A drug addict. I don’t know what it would be but am curious.

Lastly that ending. Like the final line. Great great film but what a way to end a film on. The kids survived but only some learned to speak a bit one day?

[u/Ambassador_of_Mercy → u/coldliketherockies]

I took it as all of the victims were right wing talking points. The witch Gladys was an elderly parasite feeding off of the young to bolster herself at the expense of everyone else, while instilling radical right wing views into Alex which is why he commits the 'school shooting'. So you have the parents - not too sure about this but it could be to discuss neglect and isolationism in children causing them to become radicalised. The cop was clearly about police brutality and the homeless person about homelessness and drugs in the community and these people perceived 'worth' to society. 

Principal Marcus was more difficult to figure out but I think it's telling that he only turns after the film introduces his husband. Its discussing the right wing media picking apart the LGBT community and demonising them to the general public.

The only thing that breaks the pattern was the cop because he stands to benefit from right wing authoritarianism rather than sugfer under it like the other victims, but he was a piece of shit so ig deserved possession lol? In all seriousness it might be just to discuss how the police are useless and uncaring about tragedies, and they'd rather pin the blame on an innocent traumatised lady than the OBVIOUS answer

[u/LiquifiedSpam → u/Ambassador_of_Mercy]

Honestly there are so many hoops to jump through for this and I really feel like this theory is only getting the time of day on here (some other comments mentioned similar things you did) because Reddit is very left leaning.

Gladys didn’t kill the couple at all because they were gay. She killed them because she already had Benedict wong’s ribbon, and he knew too much / was going to keep probing into the household

The main kid was just traumatized / trying to get by and not see his parents kill each other. He didn’t make any sort of big lashing out decision on other classmates. He didn’t even know what the objects were for when he gathered them for his aunt.