Weapons
Director: Zach Cregger
Starring: Julia Garner, Josh Brolin, Alden Ehrenreich
Genre: Weapon eyes
Weapons is one of the most stupid, ridiculous and worst films I have ever seen. Yet for reasons I don’t understand, the vast majority of critics, both professional reviewers and amateur film watchers, have highly rated it.
The storyline is absurd and makes no sense. The supposed horror is more horrible than anything and the ‘black comedy’ isn’t the slightest bit funny. Apparently, the filmmakers only included the comedy bits that Hollywood test audiences laughed at – how they were amused I don’t understand.
I’m wondering now if, as per my negative recent review of the Australian horror film Bring Her Back which did well globally, I’m simply just not into horror films. This also makes me wonder if there is any point in reading, watching or listening to film reviews given the high possibility that my, and indeed possibly your, thinking and preferences are completely irrelevant to the reviewer’s!
Anyway, enough about me and more about this film. In summary, a bunch of school-age kids ran away and went missing at 2:17am (a biblical reference apparently). The hopeless police did nothing logical which opened up all sorts of options for the parent and teacher who decided to investigate the situation. They copped nonsensical retaliation as a result, but of course it all worked out fine.
Nothing that happened in the film was rational. Clearly, irrationality is a standard horror film selling point!
By disconnecting yourself from reality, you can treat the film as deliberate fun and games, if you’re OK with that sort of game of course.
Rating: No point
