Title – In the Blink of an Eye (2026)

Director – Andrew Stanton (Wall-E)

Cast – Kate McKinnon, Rashida Jones, Daveed Diggs, Jorge Vargas

Plot – Over thousands of years, the lives of three varied humans interconnect through their shared experience of the human condition both in the past, present and future.

“All we share, and all we experience, echoes across time”

Review by Eddie on 05/03/2026

If Wall-E and Finding Nemo director Andrew Stanton thought his live action directional work reached its toughest peak with the much-maligned financial flop John Carter in 2012, the talented filmmaker had better have prepared some thick skin for the reception of his newest effort In the Blink of an Eye.

Recently premiering at this year’s Sundance Film Festival with a collection of reviews that can only be described as scathing and disastrous, any hope Eye had of becoming one of 2026’s breakout original hits were quickly dashed, as Disney moved on from the films unveiling to dump it unceremoniously onto its streaming service with little to no fan-fare.

Working off a script by Colby Day (now 0-2 in the feature film space following on from Netflix bomb Spaceman), Stanton can’t be accused of taking the easy route with Eye, with his film very much a moulding together of “big” films such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Tree of Life and a direct/indirect copycat of Cloud Atlas but despite clocking in at a refreshingly brief 90 minutes, Stanton’s film feels cold and try-hard even if its core message and aims are commendable.

It’s the type of film that almost feels bad not too like and to poke fun at but it’s impossible to deny the failings of the film to launch as it tries so desperately to wow you and move you but it’s a poor man’s Interstellar when it comes to its sci-fi approach with a human touch, while its modern day drama isn’t very interesting and its B.C timeline coming off like it’s a collection of deleted scenes from the much maligned 10,000 B.C.

Following three separate but loosely connect storylines that are showcasing to us that everyone’s stories matter and people’s decisions ripple through time, with Jorge Vargas’s caveman dealing with the harsh realities of life, Rashida Jones and Daveed Diggs working through a tricky relationship and Kate McKinnon venturing through space to reignite the human race off world, you can see the potential in Eye and what drew someone with the talent of Stanton to it but sadly its mostly a case of what could’ve been throughout its journey.

Witnessing the likes of Jones, Diggs and McKinnon try their best with what their given, including the very trite and half-baked script by Day makes Eye a frustrating one, with that second-hand embarrassment feeling seeping through to the viewer as we watch these talented performers go to work with so little and while there are little glimmers of what might’ve been found throughout Eye, for the most part you’ll be wishing you were watching the many films Stanton’s venture so desperately wanted to be.

Here’s hoping Stanton’s return to the animated landscape this year with Toy Story 5 finds him delivering much more well-rounded and engaging content.

Final Say –

In the Blink of an Eye has all the makings of something special but barely any of that comes forward in the final product, making one wonder very little as to why this feature was dumped onto streaming without so much of peep over recent time.

2 gold acorns out of 5