Didn't appeal to the masses - Great!

Rating: 10/10 (16 February 2015)

Here is a movie that not only does not contain car chase scenes or gratuitous violence or excessive special effects, it actually mocks those that do. There are so many moving parts to this plot that interweave reality and the film it is hard to list them, or indeed perceive them.
Two characters, Riggan, played by Michael Keaton, and Mike played by Edward Norton, carry the film from beginning to end. You might be tempted to see Keaton as a man trying to regain his former glory by pulling this serious play off; but in fact he is a man who views his prior roles as Birdman as no career at all. Faced with the choice of recreating his Birdman role - and getting easy money, or showing the world that he can create and perform something that is indeed both serious and witty, he chooses the latter. Mike is both his last minute only hope to pull it all off, and his constant pain-in-the-ass, any second catastrophic failure figure.
If you like constant action with car chase scenes, real bullets flying, and bare breasts bouncing with intermittent sobbing from broken hearted women, then this is not the movie for you.
On the other hand, if you want to see a movie with a real plot, edgy directing and sharp dialog, then see it - - and pay attention! Not for the masses of today's audiences, and for a change a great movie without sub-titles..