This article contains details of Old Guard 2, which debuted on Netflix on July 2. “One day, you’ll understand, every minute is a step toward death,” Uma Thurman’s vengeful Discord says in Netflix’s long-awaited and much-delayed The Old Guard 2.

It’s a character-driven story that mirrors a basic human truth—our own mortality is what gives life its urgency.

About 80 minutes into “The Old Guard 2,” I found myself wondering how the filmmakers were going to wrap things up. There were a lot of threads dangling with Charlize Theron’