Birdman: Michael Keaton Can Act

I saw Birdman, AKA critic's wet dream film of 2014. It was very critic friendly with tremendous acting from Keaton (especially), Ed Norton (excellent, but standard excellence for Norton), Emma Stone, Zach Galifinakis & Naomi Watts. The film centers around Keaton's character of Riggan, a once famous actor who played Birdman is 3 insanely successful movies in the early 90's. This role was made for Keaton. Riggan decides to spend the last of his money directing, filming, & starring in his own adaption of a favorite author who gave him a cocktail napkin worth of encouragement during one of his plays at Syracuse. He struggles with many things within himself, but the voice of Birdman egging him on constantly during times of self-doubt. Keaton is incredible navigating through the insane depths of his character. The play is a train-wreck mixed with brilliance with the SUPER temperamental Norton crushing it. It's a very serious drama mixed in with some random humor. It's filmed in generally very tight frames and close up, it's very unique. It's a little to artistic/boring for mainstream popularity, and it was boring at times, but the acting and interesting characters are enough to keep it moving along to be enjoyable (for me anyway). Bottom line: 8.8 out of 10. Impressive efforts from all the actors involved, but it was still boring enough to not get pushed up into the 9's. You can drop coin at the theater, but you'd be better of waiting until it's streaming/rentable for cheap.