A Complete Waste of 2 Hours

Rating: 1/10 (25 September 2015)

Why on earth was this film nominated for so many awards? All I got out of "Birdman" was that the "actor" the film followed was washed up and was looking for something to redeem himself. Instead of a genuine story, however, the viewer is forced to suffer through a half- written clunker that seems to focus more on crude sex jokes and innuendo than the actual story plot. The film itself just does not make much sense at all, which makes it challenging to tell where the writers are going here.
I also found Riggan's unrealistic "ability" to levitate and move things around without even touching them to be incredibly stupid. The ending, in itself, was even worse, as Sam, Riggan's daughter, finds a hospital bathroom window open, where Riggan was staying at the time after it was revealed that he botched his own suicide, only to discover that he is not there and has assumingly "flown away" with the birds into the sky. The film ends as Sam looks down the street, slowly up to the sky and then smiles.
What a lousy film. If this really qualifies as "quality entertainment" these days, then I think it's safe to say that some of these movie critics should either retire or be out of a job altogether.