The drumming was the only thing good of the whole movie / Shame on the Oscars!

Rating: 1/10 (23 January 2016)

The drumming was the only thing good of the whole movie, in my opinion. I don't understand how is possible that this movie stole the 2 Oscars from Boyhood & Richard Linklater. The movie was pretentious. And even more pretentious than the movie is the title. I'm a cinema's lover and I really enjoy "arty" movies, but this was everything but artistic. Watts was really dull in this movie, and Keaton wasn't that great. I do think that Alejandro González Iñárritu is a highly overrated director, who tries more to impress than to make good movies. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) is a bit entertaining and definitely empty. Don't expect anything magic, sublime or artistic! I almost never write negative reviews, unless the movie really annoyed me. Shame on the Oscars! Greetings from Madrid! / Antonia