It’s crazy how often I’m seeing people say that Weapons didn’t have a clear point / that the metaphors and ideas were random or even meaningless. Separate from whether or not the movie is good, it’s themes are not especially obscure. Spoilers:

At a certain point a character literally says the children have been “weaponized”. Each character we track weaponizes the children in different ways, which is to say they turn the children into means for their own ends. Most of characters we track are ostensibly guardians: teacher, parent, cop, principal. The teacher uses the kids for her personal therapy, the parent exploits the tragedy to rally anger. The junkie, while no caretaker, just helps the kids for the reward money. This is a movie about adults literally failing the generation after them.

I’ve seen the ultimate villain characterized as a random “wizard did it” ending, introduced as a lateral move solely to throw off audience expectations as Barbarian did. But she’s seen fairly early in the film and is straightforwardly villainous the entire time, so I find this confusing. Given the theme of generational failure, consider that she’s by far the oldest character, a Boomer who is literally sucking the life out of the generations after her. That seems random?!

I enjoyed the movie but not because it had some big point to make. I just found it a fun thrill ride full of exciting images and that’s enough for me. But it certainly also holds up to thematic scrutiny! Whether you enjoyed the movie enough to take it seriously is a separate question.