The Bride! has a little bit of something for everyone: Do you like Fred Astaire musicals? Or throwback gangster pictures? Perhaps you’re in the mood for a girl-power revolution, or maybe you just want to watch a scar-ridden colossus curb-stomp a goon—Gyllenhaal seems to want viewers to have it all, as long as they can tolerate frequent meta-textual references and buckets of gore. The ambition on display reflects other recent Warner Bros. passion projects, such as Sinners, One Battle After Another, and Wuthering Heights, that let exciting directors work on a grand scale, Hollywood timidity be damned. Each of these managed (Wuthering Heights possibly the least) to thread social commentary with entertainment rather seamlessly. But The Bride!, exclamation point included, shows how a filmmaker can end up getting lost in their venture’s size, remembering to throw the big ideas at the audience only right at the end.