Blackbird

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Blackbird

2022

1h 30m

Romance

Drama

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An MI6 operative named Victor Blackley turns his back on the agency after his fiancée is killed on a mission gone wrong. Sometime later, he finds himself as the owner of 'The Blue Moon', a prestigious hotel in Barbados that acts as a safe haven for international criminals to complete under the table dealings. Though, after years of turning his head to his guest's business, he is pulled back in to the world he left when a former agent connected to his past turns up as part of a small party, who have come to conduct business on his grounds. What begins as a chance encounter that reignites an old flame quickly becomes a life or death struggle to save not only those closest to him, but also the potential lives of millions throughout the world.

Mark Kermode

Kermode and Mayo's Take (YouTube)

A succession of eye-wateringly terrible vignettes in which somebody has given themselves the role of superhero, super fighter, super intelligent, super swish, super suave Humphrey Bogart...

Dec 29, 2023

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Donald Clarke

Irish Times

Blackbird is just about as poor as we had hoped. It may even be bad enough to bear ironic recommendation.

Rated: 1/5

Sep 2, 2022

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Ed Power

Daily Telegraph (UK)

Much of the film is unintentionally hilarious. Did Flatley, for instance, know how ridiculous it would be for him to wear a variety of hats each tilted at precisely the same angle?

Rated: 1/5

Sep 1, 2022

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Stefan Pape

Common Sense Media

It's the sort of project you'd devise at the age of 10 when making movies with your younger siblings, where you, naturally, are the hero. The self-indulgence is hard to look past.

Rated: 1/5

Apr 20, 2023

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Sarah Manvel

Critic's Notebook

Significantly better than any vanity project by a dilettante millionaire has the right to be.

Sep 20, 2022

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Edward Porter

Sunday Times (UK)

Weirdly, after presenting itself as a thriller, it gives up and cuts short its action finale. You wouldn’t expect Flatley to be a new Spielberg, but you might still have thought the showman in him would try a bit harder.

Rated: 1/5

Sep 13, 2022

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Brett R

This movie is an unmitigated disaster! I highly recommend watching it.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

09/27/24

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Audience Member

I can't not recommend this enough!!!

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

09/13/24

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Stuart B

Blackbird was one of those viewing experiences that I'm sure we have all had, you know the one. Where you are watching a film and early on know that its not a great film and that you should really hit the off switch and try something else, but you end up watching the full film anyway and then thinking. You know what? I didn't like it, but I'm glad I watched it. Clearly Blackbird is a passion project for Michael Flatley and that's fine, I'm sure everyone has something they would class as a ‘passion project' . Blackbird was such an odd film and whilst it did have its fun silliness and curiosity about it for me. I'm not sure its a film Id recommend unless someone says to me ‘I want to watch something odd, that'll make my head tilt like a confused puppy' in which case I might answer with ‘watch Blackbird' Also if you are a fan of Eric Roberts then he's definitely full on Eric Roberts in this film too and that's always fun to watch. It also has one of (if not the) most ridiculous fight scenes that youll see (or actually not see) on screen where the hero of the film is taken off camera by a couple of thugs, and a few seconds later he returns onscreen, blood soaked having just won a fight with the thugs but we don't ever get to see any of the fight at all. totally bonkers!

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

03/17/24

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Zach F

It had 0 tap dancing.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

03/12/24

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Karl G

The most cliche-ridden, embarrassingly egotistical nonsense from a middle-aged man I've ever seen. Just the worst.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

12/13/23

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Alain M

all the ingredients of a bad thriller, and some b-rated actors and even the presence of Eric Roberts (who lately doesn't seem to get back to your quality of before) are making the perfect cocktail for a lousy thriiler

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

07/01/23

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An MI6 operative named Victor Blackley turns his back on the agency after his fiancée is killed on a mission gone wrong. Sometime later, he finds himself as the owner of 'The Blue Moon', a prestigious hotel in Barbados that acts as a safe haven for international criminals to complete under the table dealings. Though, after years of turning his head to his guest's business, he is pulled back in to the world he left when a former agent connected to his past turns up as part of a small party, who have come to conduct business on his grounds. What begins as a chance encounter that reignites an old flame quickly becomes a life or death struggle to save not only those closest to him, but also the potential lives of millions throughout the world.

Director: Michael Flatley
Producer: Glen Kirby
Screenwriter: Michael Flatley
Production Co: Egg Studios
Genre: Romance, Drama
Original Language: British English
Runtime: 1h 30m