I lasted twenty minutes before walking out — and honestly, that was generous. One Battle After Another isn’t so much a film as it is a lecture masquerading as entertainment. The writing is heavy-handed, the characters feel like mouthpieces for Twitter discourse, and every scene hammers home a message instead of telling a story.
What could’ve been a nuanced exploration of conflict and identity turns into a checklist of modern “woke” talking points, wrapped in self-importance. Subtlety? Gone. Authentic emotion? Nowhere to be found. It’s all surface-level virtue signaling with the depth of a slogan.
Save your time. If you want to be entertained, look elsewhere — this one’s a propaganda reel pretending to be cinema.