“One Battle After Another” (** out of four) was a long-winded political melodrama about a former revolutionary (Leonardo DiCaprio) whose life of perpetual stoned paranoia is altered when his daughter (Chase Infiniti) is kidnapped and his comrades (Benicio Del Toro, Regina Hall, and others) reform to find her with various military personnel (Sean Penn, Tony Goldwynn, and others) pursuing them all. Director Paul Thomas Anderson tackles numerous topical issues of military oppression and incarceration with some scattered moments of engrossing emotional power but (like a lot of Anderson’s other works) it meanders too much and goes on far too long and loses most of its dramatic interest. Del Toro stands out as usual but his 2000 “Traffic” was a far richer and more powerful work about politics and the drug trade.