Good Acting, Bad Screenplay

Rating: 4/10 (26 January 2015)

If you are looking for a dark superhero drama, this is not it. Better to see Watchmen (2009). This is more of a soap opera about Broadway. It's not funny like Twentieth Century (1934); it's incoherent and boring. It's emotionally shallow. It's a depressing slow motion descent into madness, the effect being that of a lousy French art film. The acting is good; the camera work is amazing; but none that that can ransom the terrible screenplay.
I think the Birdman is a character that has great comedic potential, especially in a dark comedy. I think maybe this movie began its life as a dark comedy and was transformed by a pretentious little mind into a cynical, forgettable drama about a Broadway play that is so uninteresting we get to see almost none of it.