2025 really was a good year for horror with there being quite alot of original horror films films coming out and while yes we did still get the odd sequel or remake we mostly got original horror films last. Heck even two of those horror films have now been nominated for OSCAR's with Sinners being nominated for sixteen awards and while the film that i'm going to be talking to you all about today has only been nominated for the one it's the fact that we alot more horror films being nominated for OSCAR's in the first place that is something to always applaud and so then join me as I review the film that is now officially a prestige horror film with the film in question being called simply just "Weapons" enjoy.
The plot of this film is when all but one kid in her entire class goes missing a school teacher and a parent find themselves in the crosshairs of something really more evil then what either of them first thought. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good with the films plot being one that is wholly original as unlike Sinner which borrowed elements of it's plot from the film From Dusk Till Dawn here everything in regards to the plot of the film is unique to this film with the films plot being told in the same way that it was told in The Hateful Eight where it's told in chapters only here we get to find out that all of the characters that we are meeting are all telling different parts of the same story with this being something that does help to make what could have been seen as a being a small time plot seem all the more bigger as now we get to see how it affects alot of the films characters with the film giving it's plot alot of focus all of which does go quite along way into making this films plot be all the more better then what it really should have been and while films like Sinners and even Good Boy for example might have the better plots it' this film and it's plot that is the more interesting to see as you never really know what's going to happen next with the plot of the film being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this film is one of this film executive producers Josh Brolin as Archer Graff and Julia Garner as Justine Gandy. Also starring in this film is Alden Ehrenreich as Paul Morgan , Austin Abrams as James , Cary Christopher as Alex Lilly , Toby Huss as Ed Locke , Benedict Wong as Marcus Miller , Sara Paxton as Erica , Justin Long as Gary , June Diane Raphael as Donna Morgan , Whitmer Thomas as Alex's Father , Callie Schuttera as Alex's Mother , Luke Speakman as Matthew Graff , Clayton Farris as Terry Miller , Scarlett Sher as The Child Narrator and Amy Madigan as Gladys.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. With this films acting being alot more better then what it really had any right to be as quite alot of this films actors aren't big named actors and therefor it would have been foolish to expect good or even great performance from them and yet all of this films actors really do knock it out of the park performance wise with it being made clear as day that the makers of this film really did cast all of these characters really well as it is hard to picture anyone else playing these roles as it just makes to much sense for them to be played by these actors with the best actor in the film being a tie between Julia Garner , Josh Brolin and Amy Madigan as all three actors are just so good in this film with Amy being really creepy as the unassuming Gladys , Josh being really heartbreaking as a father who just wants to see his son again and Julia being really good as Justine who really gets all of the blame for all but one of her students going missing and she has to somehow really hide the fact that really is broken on the inside with that being something that really both she and Josh Brolin do really well with the acting that's in this film really being helped by the fact that the script for this film is just so good that all this films actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.
Doing the CGI for this film is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Ingenuity Studios , Big Flick Rentals and The-Artery. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual CGI thats actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good with the films CGI mainly being used on the scene where the kids crash through several houses at the end of the film as for obvious reason your not going to have real kids doing something like that for real and to be fair to this film you really can't tell that it's CGI as it does look real with the rest f the films CGI mainly being used to extended the sets and that's really it and that's greats as that's how CGI should be used as there only fixing things that they couldn't help with on the day of filming and to do things that you for obvious reasons don't want to be doing with a child actor with the film making great use of mostly practical effects as while there is some amount of CGI done to characters faces when they become rage machines and start attacking whomever Gladys tells them to which even then it's done because of the fact that not alot of people can have there eyes come out like they do in this film and therefor the only way to do something like would be to have level of CGI on it to make it look good in the first place and while it would have been super easy for the makers of this film to go really over board with the CGI the fact that there is a strong focus on practical effects over CGI effects with the two blending together really well does show us that you can have a modern film without having a ton of CGI in it.
People always say that there are no original stories being told anymore and that all we get is sequels , reboots and remakes. Whilst that is true for the bigger studios if you look more deeper and look at what's coming out independently you'll notice that horror films in particular have been churning out original films for a long time and just because because there not mainstream films that win all of the awards doesn't mean there not there just look at films like Good Boy and Late Night With The Devil as prime examples of that as neither film was made by a major studio and neither film is that well known to the mainstream audience and yet they both managed to find an audience that really connected with them and while yes mainstream horror films like for example Scream 7 and to a lesser degree any of the horror films released by Platinum Dunes are all either sequels or remakes that doesn't mean that there aren't original films out there heck even the film that alot of people where hoarding as being an original film in Sinners technically isn't an original film as that film largely borrows it's plot from From Dusk Till Dawn and yet it got called an original film where as Good Boy and Late Night With The Devil that actually are original films went unnoticed all because of the fact that there not released by a major studio and while this film is both released by a big studio that being Warner Bros through there New Line Cinema line it is still an original film and it's one that does deserve as much love and attention as Sinners got for being an actual original film that did really well at the box office and yet for one reason or another not alot of people were talking about this film when it first came out.
One of the things that really doesn't work all that much in this film is the fact that it tells it's story essentially in chapters. As while this is a good idea it is something that does harm the flow of the story and the film mystery aspect as well as the film will just get going again when it suddenly cuts to black and starts up all over again with a new POV character which is fair enough as it does give us the audience a reason to keep on watching the film but at the same time tho it also makes this film feel alot more like a TV and alot less like a movie with those cuts to black essentially being the end of an episode with it affecting the mystery as the film only gives us clues as to what really is going on when the film focuses on three characters those being Alex , Justine and Archer and that's really it and even then those characters have there stores spread quite far apart with the film not really bothering to give us much more of a clue during all of the characters stories which is something that would be fine if this wasn't a mystery film and yet because it is a mystery film that does mean that they have to give us clues in order for us the audience to work out for ourselfs just what really is going on with this something that could have been fixed if the film just cut down on the alot of the pointless character stories as we don't need to see what James , Paul and Marcus were doing as there stories don't have that much impact on the films main story and yet because of the fact that the film does have all of those stories being told which don't get me wrong does lead to some really good scenes it does mean that small things like the lack of a good mystery do have to get sacrificed.
One thing that both does and doesn't work is the relationship between Justine and Archer it works in the respect that they are the only adults in this possibly small town actively looking for these kids and therefor they team up with each other to help each other out. However it doesn't work in the respect that Archer at the start of the film was openly accusing Justine of possibly kidnapping the kids one of which included his own son with there not really being a moment in the film where the both of them realized that how they've been acting all through out the film was more hurting there cause and not really helping it with this being something that very easily could have been fixed either with a line of dialog or a look from Archer after he's just saved Justine from being killed off by Marcus as then he would have seen for himself that the things that she's been saying to him and the whole town for that matter was the truth and therefor he would want to help her and she would need his helps as he knows what general direction the kids were all running in the morning they all disappeared yes it is a small issue grated but it's a small issue that does effect the film in a big way as the film rests on us the audience buying into the fact that they would help each other out and yet without a scene in the film were the characters acknowledge either that they need help or that they were in the wrong for treating the other person so badly in the first place it is something that makes there relationship come across as being forced and not something that these two characters would possibly do in the first place and yet if the makers of this film did remove the chapter aspect of the film then it would have allowed for a moment like that to happen in the first place.
Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly two hours and eight minuets and twenty nine seconds. Which for a horror film is a tad bit on the long side but in saying this tho this is a film that really does need that long of a running time in order to properly tell it's story and do justice to it's plot as if you made this film even five or ten minuets shorter then you would run the risk of doing alot of harm to the film plot with this film having more then plot there to really over that amount of running time in the first place and yet this film really doesn't use it's running time all that wisely as this film doesn't take the time to fully develop it's plot something which it can't do due to the more episodic nature of the films plot and while yes there is a main plot of the film going on the film can't develop it as just when the plot really gets going again it cuts to a different POV character and therefor has to start all over again and while this doesn't really effect te films character development all that much as the characters that you want to see get more developed as characters do get their time to shine but the film still doesn't fully develop it's characters as while the film does develop Justine and Archer it doesn't develop the rest of it's characters with characters like Alex and Gladys for example coming across as being very one note and one dimensional characters which would be fine if they were just side characters but there not there meant to be main characters and while the film does have an in story reason for us not finding out all that much about Gladys as she gets introduced late into the film with Alex tho there's not really an excuse as the film does revolve around him and yet we don't really get to find out all that much about him as a character but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.
So now then as this is a horror film that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. With it being made clear as day that the makers of this film out alot of thought and effort into giving us some really memorable kills as even tho there aren't that many kills in the film the few that there are stand out all the more due to how impactful that they are and how well done that they are as well and while Gladys isn't that well developed as a villain just due to how late into the story that she's introduced it's her death that's the best kill in the whole entire as we get to see get chased through several houses and down the street before getting tackled to the ground where she is then dismembered by all seventeen kids that she had bewitched with her death being the most gory death in the whole film with it being made obvious that the makers of this film knew that we would want to see a good death for her character as they go out of there way to give us exactly that and while the film does have plenty of other gory moments like Justine slicing of a part of Paul's face during the third act or even Marcus headbutting his husband to death it's the death of Gladys that works all the more due to the fact that she is this really evil person with the film having some really good deaths in it as well all of which do make this film to be even more creepy then what it rally should have been in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall whilst yes Sinners is the more better film and totally deserves all of the nominations that it got that doesn't mean that this film should be forgotten about even more so when it's been OSCAR nominated as well as this is a film that really does deserves all of the praise that it got and then some in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 7.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Tenor , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being Google Images simply because Google Images actually has images from this film really are up and on Google Images and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on Google Images were all really very fairly high quality and as well as being as really very fairly high definition as well and so then horror fans we end this review as we always do with really our one and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some really very unpleasant dreams.
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