Puts you backstage Broadway

Rating: 7/10 (16 January 2015)

The best thing about this movie is the backstage look at mounting a Broadway play with all the insecurities and neuroses of the personalities involved. The photography really puts you there in the back streets of the theater district and makes it look pretty gross. The fantasy alter ego bird superpower thing is okay not too much till the ending which should have been more resolved.
Michael Keaton's performance is good and reminds sometimes of Beetlejuice in parts with the hyper muttering. Don't really feel that much for what his character is going through. Naomi Watts is good as the insecure actress. Wish there was more of her. Edward Norton is a bit unattractive to be the leading man of Broadway. Emma Stone looks disheveled as the ex rehab daughter but sounds a bit together to have been in rehab.
Worth a watch for it's originality - although not a classic for the ages.