Weapons (2025)

This film starts off strong with, seemingly, so much to say about survivor's guilt, shame and blame games, institutional failures, the venal stupidity of small-town/small-business USAmerica, and the moral value mainstream USAmerican culture places on guns vs schoolchildren. Unfortunately, it sheds these possibilities as early as the first few scenes, and the dregs are mostly gone by the end of the second chapter. What's left is a competent horror film with some inspired musical choices and goddamn eerie cinematography, but only quick and easy vignettes of the social commentary it promised. The final act maintains the tension it inherits, but I was expecting something more.