Waste of 2 hours

Rating: 1/10 (16 December 2014)

I want my 2 hours back! Set your review filter to MAX=3 and you'll find most everything that I wanted to say.
Pretentious, boring, over-acted, little exploration of Birdman himself, camera work annoying, cardboard characters (except for Birdman/Keaton). Reading all the ridiculous, fawning, "smart", over-analyzed positive reviews, I felt like the child in "The Emperor's New Clothes".
Watching Emma Stone was particularly painful. I hated every scene she was in. Galifianakis was miscast, in my opinion. He was neither funny nor believable. I was also disappointed in Norton, whose understated style I usually like. But not really his fault, I suppose -- his character was much like the movie: boring and annoying.
I want movies to entertain me and/or make me think about life. The only thing this move did was make me wish for it to end. Unfortunately, when it does end, you have no more clue of what it was trying to say than when it started.