Pledging to watch ‘The Oath’ may cause severe regrets

“The Oath” (2023) – “You are so boring, all your thinking.” – Bathsheba (Nora Dale) After a brief opening chase scene through a crowded forest in director/co-writer Darin Scott’s “The Oath”, the camera focuses on the lead, Moroni (also played by Scott), a muscular 40-something donning a warrior’s garb, complete with, perhaps, a cowhide vest.   He’s thinking. Moroni stands, sits, and lies down in a vast patch of lush emerald pasture near an ocean coast, and the thoughts in his head – for some reason – are spoken aloud…