Rating: R | Runtime: 128 minutes
Release Date: August 8th, 2025 (USA)
Studio: Warner Bros.
Director(s): Zach Cregger
Writer(s): Zach Cregger

It’s just a touch of consumption.

Loved the structure. Loved the boldness of Zach Cregger never pretending like he had to hide who was terrorizing the town. Loved Benedict Wong running full speed into that gas station parking lot. Loved everything Amy Madigan was doing. Loved watching those kids jump through windows like Matt Damon in The Bourne Ultimatum.

Parasites on the classroom walls. Cordyceps on the television. Witchcraft on the lips of concerned parents. Cregger enjoys teasing the different ways seventeen grade schoolers could be controlled to spark a coordinated “voluntary” migration from their homes because he knows the truth is so much weirder.

While the vagueness of the why in Barbarian attempted to hide the fact that the film was rather generic beneath the chaos, Weapons is just pure chaos. It toes the line perfectly as far as showing just enough to understand intent without wasting time or attention on exposition. We’re having too much fun wrapping our heads around the insanity to care about anything else.

After all, evil is evil regardless of the origins of its methods.

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