Review of Bird (1988) by Jason M — 19 Jun 2011
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 Jason M on 19 Jun 2011.
Bird has generally received very positive reviews.
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