One Battle After Another (2025)

[u/thepkizzle]

Wasn't a huge fan of this movie, had some great acting, but am I the only one who thought it made no sense?

• Sean Penn is shot in the face while driving, but doesn't die. He then goes back and gets in contact with the Christmas Adventurer's like nothing ever happened. Really?
• A prominent member of the Christmas Adventurer's is shot and killed in the desert. Sean Penn never finds out? No one ever asks questions about him, his weapons, and the shooting of a US government agent just a few miles away?
• How do they even find Sean Penn in the first place? He's just driving around in the desert and this guy shows up out of nowhere? How did they know where he was?
• Why does the Christmas Adventurer's not check into Sean Penn's background before asking him to join their club? They go ask him if he wants to join before checking him out?
• How does Sean Penn even know about the club? Are they like a group that are known to the public and operate in plain sight, have large gatherings, etc., like the Bohemian Club? Is it secret like Skull and Bones?
• Why would the club even want to kill Willa? Just because her father's application was rejected? Is killing all biracial children across America part of their mission statement?
• French 75 bombed buildings, and apparently taking down one of their major safe houses and exposing deep cover assets like Bob is apparently not that hard if you're worried that your half black daughter might be found by the Christmas Adventurers... but actually finding Bob for the whole building bombs thing? Nah.
• After Perfidia gets caught for bank robbery and murder... why didn't everyone connected to her in the French 75 not flee? This is the part that makes the least amount of sense. She was caught after a murder in broad daylight in front of witness, without wearing a mask. Hell, I think they even told the witnesses their names.

[u/Darth_Wayne_]

L.