Disclaimer: I’m a blind film critic. I typically watch films with audio description, and this film has AD produced by PixelLogic, with the AD performed by john Bentley.

Andrew Stanton is the director of one of my top 10 films of all time, if I’m allowing my initial feelings to not change. Wall-E would be a top 10 film for me, but it is slightly less enjoyable when you are limited to just audio description. It is a rare outlier in that. But Stanton, who also directed Finding Nemo, hasn’t had much success in live action, notably the big budget disaster John Carter. I actually didn’t hate that like everyone else did, but this new thing of his. This is terrible.

It is a little over 90 minutes, but I felt like the whole day went by. itt has the unique distinction of being not just a film that put me to sleep, but did so, in public. There’s a difference when at home, curled up on your comfortable couch, or propped up in your recliner. But to fall asleep in some public spaces is not something we want to do, so a film so boring it knocked me the fuck out, yeah, I took notice.

I did wake up before the end, which is how I got the credits for audio description. I woke up when some of the randoms were surrounding a dead body. The film follows three different time periods, one being so far in the past that spoken language hasn’t developed, another in the present with Rashida Jones and Daveed Diggs, and the other in the future with Kate McKinnon headed to a distant planet. There’s a common plot device with an acorn being passed along, and each set of characters theoretically should engage us on an intelligent level. After all, this film did win a prize at Sundance from a group of scientists.

But, really? McKinnon spends most of her time communicating with an AI chatbot, essentially. It’s some 400 years in the future, we’ve already started to do the robot thing, and other science fiction films have broached putting AI in a body, or at least a hologram. But no, we can’t do that, because McKinnon’s entire plot revolves around a problem with maintaining stasis and oxygen levels. You know what doesn’t need oxygen? An android.

I really want to love Andrew Stanton films, because he’s a fantastic animated director, but sometimes these animation Gods need to go back to their strength. I hate to tell Brad Bird and Andrew Stanton to stop pursuing live action, but it is a fools errand at this point. They tried, now it’s time to go back and knock another Animated feature out of the park.

In The Blink Of An eye isn’t the worst film I’ve seen in the last 12 months, but it is my least favorite film of 2026 so far, a film so inconceivably dull it makes you wonder how Stanton even gets financing for live action films. If I had been able to try and steer this in a different direction, I would have done each chapter in its totality, presenting it more as an anthology film (like Kinds Of Kindness), and move it away from relishing on the interweaving of ideas. I don’t think it served the plot at all. the nicest thing I can say is it was refreshing to see Kate McKinnon in a dramatic role.

With any luck, this film will live up to its name, and be gone in the blink of an eye.

Rotten: 1.9/10