Sitting In The Aisle: Weapons

Weapons 9/10

This movie was crazy as hell! I had seen the trailer for this but thankfully avoided any spoilers for it which if you are reading this you have already seen it because this will for sure have spoilers. The way this story is told is through the point of view of multiple people. It gets to a certain point then stops and continues with someone else. The basic premise is that this 3rd grade teacher entire classroom full of students except for one boy don't show up for school one day. They all ran out of their homes at 2:17am and no one knows where they have gone. Shits spooky. The parents are saying that the teacher, Justine Gandy, knows something and are blaming her for the missing kids.

Its been almost a month and there is still no sign of the kids. At a town meeting Justine pretty much gets chased out of the place and told to go home. She heads to a store instead, gets a bunch of liquor, tells a guy she doesn't have spare change, and heads home. She is paranoid as hell when someone knocks at her door. She checks and no one is there. They pound on it and freaks her out. She looks outside and someone has written “WITCH” on her car. She mad. She heads to a bar and invites a cop named Paul who is practicing sobriety. He orders a soda which pisses her off. Paul says he is on the outs with his lady, Donna, which makes Justine smile. They later heads back to her place after a night of boning down.

Justine refuses to stop checking in on the kid, Alex, who was the only kid that showed up. The principal Marcus Miller wants her to stop because she has a history of what is considered inappropriate behavior with kids (like giving rides home and hugging). She don't listen to nobody so she goes to knock on his door and sees the windows all covered with newspaper. She peeps through a window and spots Alex's parents just chilling on the couch like zombies. She calls the principal again and he says he is gonna pretend that this call didn't happen but will contact Alex's family. Alex's aunt Gladys shows up looking eleven kinds of crazy. She says that Alex's parents have consumption but she is taking care of them.

This is where it gets difficult to continue really writing this because of how the story moves back and forth so I am gonna have to just try to explain what I can. When Justine was chilling in front of Alex's home someone stumbled out of the house and cut a lock of her hair. Paul was chasing a drug addict and got stuck by a needle in his pocket and knocked his ass out and told him they are even Stevens. One of the missing kids dad Archer confronts Justine about his missing kid when they are attacked by the principal at a gas station before he ends up getting nailed by a car. Previously Gladys went to his house and wrapped one of the ribbons in his office around a stick and wiped her blood on it and made him kill his husband by slamming his head into his face until there was almost nothing left. She then wrapped Justine's hair around the stick which caused him to attack her at the gas station. Archer says that the principal was running like the children seen on video.

The drug addict, James, ends up breaking into Alex's house and finds the parents just sitting there. He finds the kids in the basement and while at a pawn shop sees the missing kids poster with a reward. He calls the police and heads to the police station to get the money when Paul spots him and chases him into the woods. Paul ends up stabbed in the face with three needles because James thought he was Gladys who he spotted just earlier waving to him. James says he knows where the kids are and Paul leaves him in the car all day until he zombie walks out of the home and pulls James inside.

We get Alex's point of view of events. Gladys arrives and he gets home from school and his parents are just sitting at the table. Gladys makes them stab themselves in the face with forks and makes him promise not to say anything or she will make them hurt one another. Alex goes to school pretending everything is fine. He has to spoon feed his parents every day. Gladys calls him into her room and says she is not getting better but thinks Alex can help by bringing something that belongs to each kid in his class. Gladys is dying and got a bit of life from the parents but not enough. Alex takes a name tag from baskets in class and Gladys puts them into a pot, spits in it, then sets it on fire. One day at 2:17am every kid from his class come running into the house and into the basement. Gladys starts growing hair. Its wild.

The rest of the movie is insane and chaos in the best way. I laughed and gasped. There were some genuine jump scares in this. Pretty much every question you would have is answered by the time this movie ends. The way it was shot and the angles used were great. The gore, while not often, looks insanely realistic. The music used at times had a way of making me feel anxious or uncomfortable. I was completely invested in this movie and would for sure watch it a few more times.

Josh Brolin as Archer Graff

Julia Garner as Justine Gandy

Alden Ehrenreich as Paul Morgan

Austin Abrams as James

Cary Christopher as Alex Lilly

Benedict Wong as Marcus Miller

Amy Madigan as Gladys

Toby Huss as Ed Locke

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