‘One Battle After Another’ ending explained: Does Bob manage to rescue his daughter? 

**Warning: spoilers ahead**

One Battle After Another is thrilling cinema audiences, but does Leonardo DiCaprio’s Bob manage to save his daughter? Find out below.

It is the 10th feature film from Paul Thomas Anderson, the acclaimed director known for films such as There Will Be Blood, Licorice Pizza, Boogie Nights, Phantom Thread and Magnolia, and once again he is earning rave reviews.

The film is inspired by the 1990 novel Vineland by Thomas Pynchon, who Anderson has previously adapted with his 2014 film Inherent Vice.

Powered by a pulsating score from Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood, it stars DiCaprio as Bob Ferguson, a washed-up ex-revolutionary who leads a team in the attempted rescue of the daughter of one of their own. Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor, Chase Infiniti and Alana Haim co-star.

In a four-star review of the film, NME wrote: “Operatic in its intensity and lush in its visuals (Anderson shot with old-school film format VistaVision), it’s a sometimes ragged, unwieldy experience. Like the recent Eddington, it’s another throw-it-against-the-wall-to-see-what-sticks movie. Some of it doesn’t. But thank the lord this $130m barmy blockbuster exists. From a pregnant Perfidia firing off rounds from her machine gun to an unforgettable finale on the undulating desert roads, it’s a mad stir of America’s melting pot on the cusp of boiling over.”

One Battle After Another ending explained: Does Bob manage to rescue his daughter?

As the film nears its conclusion, Willa (Chase Infiniti), the daughter of DiCaprio’s Bob Ferguson, is being housed in a convent connected to the revolutionary group the French 75, but Sean Penn’s Steven J. Lockjaw is in pursuit and he raids the convent.

Concerned that his relationship with Willa’s mother Perfidia (Teyana Taylor) will prevent him from being inducted into the white supremacist group the Christmas Adventurers, he forcible tests Willa’s DNA and learns that he is her biological father. Angered, he decides to have her killed and hires Avanti to pass her onto a group of mercenaries.

However, Avanti is racially abused by the mercenaries and decides to set her free and she takes his car. A nerve-shredding car chase ensues, with Lockjaw on her tail and Bob also in pursuit. In a shocking twist, however, Smith, a representative of the Christmas Adventurers, assassinates Lockjaw, having learned of his interracial relationship.

Willa lures Smith into a crash in the rolling hills and shoots him dead when he cannot answer the revolutionaries’ signature code. Bob arrives on the scene and Willa is initially shaken and demands to hear the code from him too. Bob pleads with her that he is her father and they tearfully embrace.

Later, Bob gives Willa a letter from Perfidia in which she admits that her revolutionary methods have been unsuccessful, but she reiterates the importance of trying to change the world. With Bob’s blessing, Willa sets off to join a protest.