Review of Bird (1988) by Ryan Gibbons — 07 Nov 2010
I'm pretty sure that this is one of Eastwood's first and it certainly was not bad. This may sound sort of dumb but I thought that he included too much music in it, there was too much music and not enough biography, not really being a jazz fan, the substantial amount of time consuming performances started to bore me and get on my nerves.
Whitaker gives a pretty good performance but he sort of annoyed me for some reason and not in a good way, I'm not an expert on jazz so maybe Parker was kind of an ass. Eastwood obviously put a lot of heart into the movie and I commend him for that.
But this film is deeply flawed, it will appeal to fans of the subject matter, but maybe I was not going to like it that much going in. Decent, but nothing special. Really dragged.
This review of Bird (1988) was written by Ryan Gibbons on 07 Nov 2010.
Bird has generally received very positive reviews.
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