One Battle After Another (2025)
Premise: Surviving the Titanic gave Mr DiCaprio a new perspective and he decided to join a revolutionary group. Things don’t always go to plan and here we are, it’s sixteen years later, he’s now an absolute dirtbag single dad whose kid needs to babysit him. The poor kid’s doing her best but there’s little way she can fix her ultra stoner/paranoid dad who thinks one of these days “they” are coming for them. Which, well, eventually happens but that must be like the only thing he’s right about during the whole movie so take that with a grain of salt.
Under 90 minutes? Nope, it’s over two hours and a half long.
Do they say the title? Yes, and it is glorious.
First thing I thought of:
Okay, more: Well this was really good. I don’t think there’s a single bad performance in the whole movie, our leads (DiCaprio, Chase Infinity and Sean Penn) are amazing. Sean Penn plays a completely repulsive and at the same time pathetic colonel (but I repeat myself hur hur), DiCaprio is an absolute loser you can’t help rooting for and Chase Infinity is simply flawless as this teen-that-needs-to-save-herself, basically. Really cool stuff, really funny with some vantablack humour, at times frighteningly accurate to some stuff we’ve seen for years but are seeing even more often nowadays. Also, Benicio del Toro playing this extremely chill karate sensei, goodness.
You know, your favourite blog has the “is it under 90 minutes” section because I honestly prefer that to be true, but as soon as I watched this one I was like “boy do I need to give this a rewatch”. So yeah a fun afternoon at the movies, and hey this shows here at Impeccable-Taste HQ we’re not just about crappy found footage movies nobody ever knew about before!
A simple way to improve it: I would so want to watch a little Cobra Kai style miniseries about Benicio del Toro’s dojo. Strike first, strike hard, a few small beers.
Trivia about the IMDb trivia:
According to director Paul Thomas Anderson, the only CGI used is the vape smoke.
Ah, they should have gone for actual joints, geez.
