Weapons (2025)

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  Barneyonmovies

  7 / 10

  WHAT I LIKED: Zach Cregger's 'Weapons,' starts out as a simple mystery story about an entire classroom of kids going missing in the middle of the night, but what's clever about it is that the mystery is unravelled by showing overlapping chapters from the perspective of different characters.
  
  We get the teacher (Julia Garner), and headteacher (Benedict Wong), a parent (Josh Brolin), a cop (Alden Erenreich) and the one surviving class member Alex (Cary Christopher), but it's not clear for a long time exactly what happened, and that creates a growing sense of expectation as the film progresses. Eventually though, we learn that Alex's aunt arrived in town and got him to collect his classmate's DNA so she could magically control them all to stay in their basement and feed off their energy.
  
  That's the kind of story that just creates tension and release for its own sake, and there's definitely something to be said for that, particularly when the release is as cathartic as the revenge ending we get here when the kids wake up and beat the aunt to a literal pulp.
  
  WHAT I DIDN'T LIKE: Without any real-world commentary or character development, there's just not much depth below the surface.
  
  VERDICT: Zach Cregger's 'Weapons,' is a well-executed mystery, but it won't be troubling my best-of-year list.

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