Best part about it was leaving the theatre and having dinner with my wife

Rating: 1/10 (1 March 2015)

For me, a complete and total waste of money and time. We almost left about 20 minutes into this self-indulgent piece of tripe.
This movie strains so hard to make itself important that it is appalling.
What can be defined as the plot (and it's a stretch to call it that) is trite and a clichÃ©. The lead actor is successful but inwardly unrewarded. He has also ruined his family in search of celebrity and wealth making Hollywood action movies, which he now considers to be junk. So, he wants to redeem himself and try his hand at serious theater. Throw in a disturbed junkie daughter, a long-suffering but understanding ex wife, and a producer pulling his hair out because the play isn't a success and you've got all you need to know.
The rest is a montage of hackneyed hallucinations, fake suicide red-herrings, gay kisses and naked male asses.
A bunch of Academy Award hype and a monument to pretentiousness.
I wish I could have those 2 hours of my life back. I hate wasting time on junk like this.
Michael Keaton was trying too hard and Ed Norton was totally wasted, and the rest of the cast were stereotypical stock characters. If actors and other creative types are really so messed up, it is even more of a crime than I originally thought that we make them so rich and honor them so much.