Birdman: The Emperor's New Clothes

Rating: 1/10 (16 March 2015)

Avoid it! That's my advice to anyone who is fortunate enough not to have seen it yet. Most of the reviews reflect how I feel about this film. There may have been one or two scenes where I was truly awestruck by the acting, but the film, on the whole, is a hot steaming pile of upchuck. Unsurprisingly, I also came across ten star reviews justifying their stance on the ground that the film was "satirical". Please!! that's what they were going for, sure, but it missed the mark completely. I honestly think that anyone who fails to see the blatant dearth of value in this film would also profess to the beauty of the Emperor's new clothes in Hans Christian Anderson's fable.