Weapons: Blu Ray Review

Cast: Julia Garner, Josh Brolin, Alden Ehernreich, Toby Huss, Benedict Wong, Amy Madigan
Director: Zach Cregger

Barbarian director Zach Cregger turns his attention to something more mysterious in this latest.

When a group of kids simply disappear one night at 2.17am, suspicion begins to fall on the local teacher, whose entire class went missing.

But as an investigation into what happened continues, not everything is as it seems.

Cregger's latest is a ride best left unspoiled with a format that tells the same story over different perspectives, each section providing a little more insight into what has happened.

Yet what you don't get is a full explanation, something which is a welcome change in the mystery genre, but something which may frustrate some viewers.

However, by intricately arranging the puzzle pieces and carefully dripping out the story, Weapons becomes a deeply effective tale of unsettling proportions.

Brolin, Wong and Garner are uniformly excellent in this, but it's Cregger's eye behind the camera which proves to be vital. From long sweeping shots to intense bursts of prolonged silence on the soundtrack, the film's committed to its upsetting air of mystery.

Using a repeated motif of following the protagonists from behind also proves to be propulsive and effective.

Perhaps the only minor downside is that after a prolonged atmosphere of unease, the ending commits to a bleakly comedic edge that produces some unusual laughs as it unspools.

But for an original idea, with a steady hand on proceedings, Weapons is one of the standout films of 2025 - a mystery puzzle that's in no rush to reveal its contents and is all the better for it.