Brad Bird's 'Ray Gunn' Review: Immersive but Sprawling — SkimNews
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- Brad Bird, the animator-filmmaker behind "Iron Giant" and "The Incredibles," has spent decades developing his passion-project feature "Ray Gunn," a retro-futurist detective story.
- The film blends jetpack-powered noir with "Blade Runner" aesthetics, and the review finds it "immersive" but ultimately "too sprawling," with what the reviewer calls a "muddled message."
Why it matters: A "muddled message" verdict on a project that consumed decades of a filmmaker of Brad Bird's stature reframes the long wait for "Ray Gunn" from anticipation into a cautionary note about the gap between creative ambition and finished execution.
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