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Weapons

Maybe its because of the hype, I was expecting to be blown away but it was average at best. If it was a Nigerian movie, no one will even remember it falls under some of the tales we were told or even some movies we have seen when younger , only thing missing is a prayer warrior or religious family to combat that woman. Maybe its the irreligiousness of the US that 17 kids go missing and no one went to 'find out'?

Everyone just start comfortably expecting the cops to sort it out save the teacher and that parent. While the end was quite funny, enjoyable to see that she got what she deserved and more, the whole movie was a letdown.


5/10

Lol, Dwayne Johnson no wan move from this sauce.... 😂😂

WB making money everywhere.....

Achilles100:
Weapons

Maybe its because of the hype, I was expecting to be blown away but it was average at best. If it was a Nigerian movie, no one will even remember it falls under some of the tales we were told or even some movies we have seen when younger , only thing missing is a prayer warrior or religious family to combat that woman. Maybe its the irreligiousness of the US that 17 kids go missing and no one went to 'find out'?

Everyone just start comfortably expecting the cops to sort it out save the teacher and that parent. While the end was quite funny, enjoyable to see that she got what she deserved and more, the whole movie was a letdown.


5/10

Bro you put a spoiler in this review without even knowing.🤦🏿‍♂️

Sorry baby
Directed written and starring eva Victor

Genre: A24 black comedy

it's pretty good
Main character is a mixture of Aubrey plaza and Phoebe waller bridge

NeoWanZaeed:
Really interesting?

Not really my kinda genre tbh, but at the end, i found myself extremely well entertained....i mean decent enough plot, decent enough animation, kinda like that of "Arcane", and decent OST too.

But i think only a selected crowd would enjoy it tho, has a certain K-pop infused sugary pop feel.

Weapons 1.5/10
This movie is completely Misleading, on the trailer I believe I heard true story which I was hype on cus I love true story films and it’s was all a lie.

Horror 0.5/10
Story 1/10

I don’t wanna drop spoilers but the ending is not giving at all, I’m seeing super human and at the same time seeing zombies.

This movie should be less than a hour, it’s pointless showing different characters story which is not necessary just to make it 2hrs long.

phr0nesis:
Honestly, the slate looked risky. For me, Superman was the only movie I was confident would make money, but nah... Final destination shocked me, Sinners impressed me, Minecraft fvcked me up. The Last Rites shattered every debut prediction. Even Sunday's updated estimate was still crushed. WB really cooked this year

They truly COOKED.
They did this while still making big bets on Original fare. They fumbled initially with ALTO KNIGHTS and MICKEY 17 but SINNERS and WEAPONS has delivered the goods.

Damn.... When you think about it, WB has about 5 Original films debuting this year with ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER from Paul Thomäs Andersön just premiering in Festivals and getting Best Picture shouts already...... really superb work from studio heads Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy. Few months into the year and it was looking like they might be probably sacked before the year runs out.

@ Dierich5
Looks like you were on to something.... You predicted that Demon Slayer would surpass the 2020 movie. And seems you might be right.

The film is looking like it would easily surpass $500mn and possibly hit $600mn.

Superb anticipation from fans. Nice one. 👏🏽

pu7pl3:
Bro you put a spoiler in this review without even knowing.🤦🏿‍♂️

Haaaa, I didn't feel anything I wrote will be regarded as a spoiler oh, Chief. For that I apologize. It wasn't intentional.

DieRich5:
Weapons 1.5/10
This movie is completely Misleading, on the trailer I believe I heard true story which I was hype on cus I love true story films and it’s was all a lie.

Horror 0.5/10
Story 1/10

I don’t wanna drop spoilers but the ending is not giving at all, I’m seeing super human and at the same time seeing zombies.

This movie should be less than a hour, it’s pointless showing different characters story which is not necessary just to make it 2hrs long.

I got home late, I stayed up that night to watch it believing it will be worth it, I was so disappointed and pissed when I woke up the next day. Now I fear for HIM, trailer looks fire, but will it follow this trend of trailer doing everything and the movie itself ass?

oyaskii:
K-pop Demon Hunters.

Run from it, hide from it, Kpop Demon Hunters will still catch you 😂

Nobody 2.

Went back and watched Nobody 1.


Violently funny to watch if there is anything like that. And the soundtrack blends perfectly with the movie.

abduleez1:
Catch Nigeria's first film to debut at Cannes Film Festival........in theatres September 19.


I took part in the project as well. 😎



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kKLvaEWw3E?si=P1PMhfUBblYEpu1B

Good one boss, been waiting for this.

Kaycee7:
Run from it, hide from it, Kpop Demon Hunters will still catch you 😂

I hate everything about it despite never having seen it. I want it to fail so so bad but it's Netflix. Sooner or later they go milk am till e sour, turn people off and all will be right again. Soon.....

samistry:
I hate everything about it despite never having seen it. I want it to fail so so bad but it's Netflix. Sooner or later they go milk am till e sour, turn people off and all will be right again. Soon.....

Nah! The Honmoon is too powerful. Even anti-woke grifters eventually had to start praising it, after realizing that they couldn't farm any outrage on it.

How can you hate everything about it, though, despite never having seen it?

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abduleez1:
@ Dierich5
Looks like you were on to something.... You predicted that Demon Slayer would surpass the 2020 movie. And seems you might be right.

The film is looking like it would easily surpass $500mn and possibly hit $600mn.

Superb anticipation from fans. Nice one. 👏🏽

tomorrow 12, the second movement will start

samistry:
I hate everything about it despite never having seen it. I want it to fail so so bad but it's Netflix. Sooner or later they go milk am till e sour, turn people off and all will be right again. Soon.....

The movie is nice but the soundtrack will make you to even like it more

The way I dy force everyone I know to watch AOT, it’s the same with this cartoon and so far, none of them hate it


Just imagine the movie is ranking and the songs are topping music charts and you don’t want to know what it about the movie that making everyone like it?

Finally something different to watch and I think I’ll rate her on this movie and it’s also a true story movie.

Weapons (2025).

Matthew 2:17.

Now, a typical horror flick almost always has two layers: “How it happened” and “Why it happened.” But Weapons is no ordinary horror film. It leans heavily into “How it happened” something that was even splattered across the trailers while the “Why” is never spoon-fed. You have to work it out yourself. And that’s why I think this is such a technically brilliant film.

How It Happened

From the trailers alone, most people could already grasp the central premise. As I mentioned earlier: 17 kids from the same class suddenly wake up at exactly 2:17 a.m. and run into the night in the same strange, synchronized fashion. This chilling event is the very first scene, the film doesn’t waste time getting to the core mystery.

Why It Happened

What followed was simply brilliant filmmaking. As the small-town community tries to unravel the mystery, the film dives into a non-chronological style of storytelling. Each thread is told through the POV of different central characters. A dramatic or shocking moment is shown first, then the film rewinds to reveal the events leading up to it, filling in the blanks while also building character depth.

The narrative explores how such a traumatic event can tear apart the fabric of a town, exposing secrets, scapegoating, and rising accusations as tensions boil higher each day the kids remain missing. By the time the story moves toward its final act, I was initially worried, the filmmaker seemed to be withholding too much context after such an excellent buildup. But the deeper the act unfolded, the more clarity it offered, and by the end, I was left deeply satisfied.


One thing I especially loved, something rare in horror films, was the dramatic, almost theatrical tone. It allowed for stronger character arcs and made the main cast more compelling. Julia Garner, who I honestly couldn’t stand in Ozark, truly surprised me here; she delivered a weighty, nuanced performance. Josh Brolin was solid as always.

The cinematography deserves special praise too. The recurring use of dark frames with a single lit element in the center created an unsettling, beautiful visual style that I absolutely loved.


I see why, Jordan Peele reportedly fired his team when they lost rights to this. It is such a technically brilliant and well scripted film with a lot to unpack and a lot of symbolism to unravel, hence the many pieces and explanations online, trying to decipher what the film was truly about, and that's what a good film does to you, and i probably believe the hype now, not that this year has been littered with good films, this is one of the very good ones.

A special.... special....film

8/10

Kaycee7:
Run from it, hide from it, Kpop Demon Hunters will still catch you 😂

Lmaoooo...Bruhhh...I have avoided it for so long, but i just had to give in and i quite enjoyed myself 🙈🙈.

But you'd have to admit, that it is such a niche peice of media 👀

Paramount

Ewwwww

A merge with Universal would be so much better.

Missed opportunity.

Mission Impossible: The Reckoning II

Nice conclusion to the franchise (hopefully).

oyaskii:
Lmaoooo...Bruhhh...I have avoided it for so long, but i just had to give in and i quite enjoyed myself 🙈🙈.

But you'd have to admit, that it is such a niche peice of media 👀

Is it really niche? It looked to me like the classic style of Disney animated storytelling, co-opted for a Netflix flick. A musical story, except the musical genre this time is K-pop. The K-pop factor is most definitely a major contributor to the global popularity it's currently enjoying.

Weapons:8/10

If you go with most of our reviews here, you’d miss a lot. That’s why I keep saying: don't let any armchair critic, myself included discourage you from seeing a movie. You either like it, or you dislike it, Las las na data you waste, nobody die. Check out IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic et.al, they are saying a totally different thing from what's being said here.


I honestly don’t get people’s beef with this movie. Weapons is one of the most ambitious horror-mysteries I have seen in a long while. What I really fancied about the movie was how Zach Cregger took a chilling concept and built it into a layered story full of atmosphere, strong performances, and lingering dread. It doesn’t spoon feed or hand you every answer on a plate, but that’s part of what makes it effective because sometimes the unknown is scarier than any explanation.

If you enjoy horror that blends psychological depth with supernatural tension, Weapons will hit the mark. If you prefer a straightforward narrative with all the dots neatly connected, you may find the ambiguity frustrating. For me, the film’s mood, tension, and human drama are exactly what give it staying power.

Weapons is not just about scares it’s about mood, mystery, and the human cost of the unknown.

Kaycee7:
Is it really niche? It looked to me like the classic style of Disney animated storytelling, co-opted for a Netflix flick. A musical story, except the musical genre this time is K-pop. The K-pop factor is most definitely a major contributor to the global popularity it's currently enjoying.

I'm hinging my argument on it been a Musical + Kpop maann 😬, Run a poll here and am so sure, more than half of the guys here would hate it, because of those 2 traits 👀

Calibrator:
Mission Impossible: The Reckoning II

Nice conclusion to the franchise (hopefully).

It's probably the worst one in the franchise imo. it lacked any proper cohesive story telling and they thought they could just pepper over it with one ridiculous stunt after another, and that runtime of almost 3 hours? Totally ridiculous and uncalled for, i basically had a migraine by the end of it, and these Mfs were going on about some "Key" and in a bid to tie it to the other movies in the franchise, ran into avoidable plot holes.

For the so called final film in the franchise, the ending felt nothing like it, flat and unremarkable, it surprisingly looked more like a setup for another one, should incase OG Tom Cruise run into money problems sometime in the future, i could easily seeing him doing one more fgs 😩.

This franchise should have ended like 3 movies ago, and this slop epitomizes that fact.