In her return to action, Thurman is pitted against Theron in “The Old Guard 2.” The two discuss the pains and pleasures of the genre.

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.

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’