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Review: One Battle After Another

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Official synopsis:  When their evil enemy resurfaces after 16 years, a group of ex-revolutionaries reunite to rescue one of their own's daughter. Despite Paul Thomas Anderson directing, and excellent talent like Leonardo DiCaprio, Teyana Taylor, Regina Hall and Benicio del Toro being involved, I wasn't quite sure what to think of the trailer of One Battle After Another. It looked....fine. When the second trailer came out, wildly different than the first, I wondered if this was going to have a tone problem. Thankfully, that was just another case of trailer editors' poor decisions, because One Battle After Another has a lot to say, and is far more timely then you'd think.  It's great to see a major studio back a film that is very harshly critiquing those against immigration. Even more so, it lampoons the white supremacists at the very top of the ladder. I wonder if those who see this film will even recognize themselves. In between all of the harshness, it's spri...