To Call this Well Acted Film a Comedy is No Joke to Mental Illness

Rating: 6/10 (11 January 2015)

Birdman is not a film for everyone...you have to love b&W abstract cinema. But for some reviewers to call this a comedy is a gross insult to the mentally ill. It's a story about a fading film actor trying to make it on Broadway with a play he wrote, directed and acted in.
But Michael Keaton, racked with pressure and bills, has another problem...he's a schizophrenic nearing a psychotic collapse. He hears voices throughout the film and is convinced he has telekinetic powers. Much of the film deals with his demons, which are hardly funny. I find it mind boggling how critics can think this is a laugh riot...It isn't.
Birdman is dramatic tour de force for Keaton...but as a film I found the hand held camera style rather tedious for a movie that in the end had a thin plot line.