There's a lot of meat on those bones!

Rating: 8/10 (22 November 2014)

I love walking into a movie not really knowing much about it. Sometimes what you read jades you, it's only human. I will try to jade you properly. This movie is brilliant on many levels and it's not loud, it's not CG crazy or shot on green screen. You won't see a lot of flashes and explosions or fast paced editing. There is no 80s hair band post score. What it does have some fascinating humans that are roped together by this Broadway play and reality.
To US movie goers Michael Keaton is a face we've known for a long time. I felt old when his first closeup comes, I thought to myself, Batman was made in 1989. But Keaton aged in good way. His character, Riggan is the once celebrated box-office action hero, Birdman. The film does a beautiful job analyzing his conflict between art, his stage debut and the prospect of doing Birdman 4. I love the technique Alejandro González Iñárritu chose for this first person style narrative. And that's all I'm saying about that.
This movie is not for everyone, but if you happen to be in the production business, you will see it and you'll learn something you didn't know. To me, that's the bonus but to the art film buff Birdman is the next great superhero!