Notable for being one of the biggest waste of time movies ever

Rating: 1/10 (27 March 2017)

I eagerly rented this movie since I'm a lover of Michael Keaton offerings and there were Academy Award nominations plus a frenzy of Hollywood Elite praises for this thing.
Wow! What a disappointment! I suppose I can understand why the Hollywood folks would like it since it was basically a close-up look at what it's like to be producing a play, something most actors have been involved with. But this is not something that interests me. There were early glimpses of Birdman's super-powers and this was the hook that enabled me to nurse some hope that it would be entertaining. But this remained only hinted at during the first hour and it became clear that we were going down the path of watching a theatrical endeavor going off the rails. Ho hum!
I actually invested almost an hour watching this abomination hoping, just like the guy who is certain that the turnoff is going to be right past the next rise, that things were going to turn around and it would actually be watchable...... it had such promise! Never happened. I now pray that a merciful god will grant me an extra hour at the end of my life to make up for the time I wasted watching this, this.... this thing. But to be fair, perhaps things got better after I made the life affirming decision to do ANYTHING else. So maybe it DID turn around and redeem itself. I'm just not willing to spend that much time being bored out of my mind.