Thoughts on Weapons (no story spoilers but some film structure discussion is needed)

Ok, I’d say the hype is pretty earned for this movie. For the most part, I thought this is solid and what I wanted to see.

Now I didn’t see any trailers other than the shot of the very basic kids running out of the house so that helped me have no expectations which I thought is really helpful.

Now it’s impossible to talk about this movie without talking about its pacing.

I thought the first third and final third were strong. I found the first third thrilling and creepy and the final third tense. The middle third the movie lost me a bit. There are a couple of characters we follow that we don’t really need to. They’re great. All the acting is. But we know what’s happening well before the movie admits we know what’s happening. It gets a little long in the tooth.

This movie isn’t novel. It sometimes pretends it is.

It was nice to see Alden Ehrenreich again. He was in Oppenheimer but here he gets to get a bit back into doing some more fun stuff.

Benedict wong is fun too.

Two characters really stole the show at the end but won’t spoil.



I also didn’t find some of the scares in the movie worked and after seeing the whole thing, some of the scares just don’t make much sense. But the movie is extremely creepy.

Oh, and this movie deals some with grief and survivor’s guilt. It’s not too heavy handed but it does allude to some stuff.

I did think the theming was good but some of it touched to closely to another movie with a somewhat similar story.

Soundtrack is good.

I should add that what I’m referring to above is the film is completely non sequential. It follows character arcs and jumps to important parts of their character arcs throughout the plot.