Reel Review Mom

My review of Weapons 

Eeehhh, I paid money to watch it….

Let me start with the obvious: I’m a single mom, which means every dollar I spend on something nonessential is a decision made with the weight of ten grocery lists behind it. So, when I forked over my own hard-earned cash to watch Weapons – 2025 (because of the hype machine that practically screamed “THIS MOVIE WILL CHANGE CINEMA!”), I expected greatness. Instead, what I got was… well, decent, but also kind of disappointing.

Now, don’t get me wrong. Julia Garner? Absolute queen. LOVE HER. IN MY OPINION SHE CAN DO NO WRONG; SHE’S A GODDESS.  She carried this movie on her shoulders like she was training for the Olympics in emotional weightlifting. Every scene she was in had a pulse, a spark, something worth watching. But here’s the thing: when you attach someone as incredible as Julia Garner to a film, you can’t just give me a plot that feels like it was stitched together from the cutting-room floor of every other “psychological thriller” made in the last decade. Predictable beats? Check. Tension that doesn’t quite land? Check. Horror that’s more “mild goosebumps” than “sleep with the lights on”? Double check.

The movie advertises itself as horror, but honestly, it leaned more toward psychological thriller—and not even the mind-bending kind. More like the “oh, I guessed that 20 minutes ago” kind. Or it could just be that I am desensitized to true horror because I have watched too much grotesqueness in my lifetime, at the ripe age of 47, lol…….

And let’s talk about the Aunt, with the hellfire hair…. Yes, the character who is clearly the defining force of this story. The Aunt deserves either a prequel or a sequel, because right now, it feels like we got half the story, and the juiciest bits are hiding in some studio drawer waiting for a green light.

So here I am, giving Weapons a 7 out of 10 on a generous day, maybe a 6 if I’m feeling salty about the ticket price. It’s not that it’s a bad movie—it’s just not the great, game-changing horror I was promised. And again, let’s stress: I paid actual money to see this, and that should mean something.

Bottom line? If you’re watching for Julia Garner, you’ll be entertained. If you’re watching for groundbreaking horror, you might leave the theater like me—checking your wallet, sighing at the hype, and muttering, “Well, at least the Aunt was terrifying.”

P.S…….

Ya know, I have to say in retrospect and really thinking about it, this movie reminds me a lot of The Village by M. Night Shyamalan….. don’t know why, but it does. . .

I watch too many movies.