The Spoiler's Review: Blackbird
I finally saw Michael Flatley's legendary Blackbird. It's ridiculous, of course. The dialogue is hilarious. The characters paper-thin. The female ones either troubled blondes, scorned and vengeful brunettes, or dead wives. The McGuffin is a microtape (!) for a panacea that can cure all pain and suffering, but "if you change one element of the formula it could kill millions". You might want to get that peer-reviewed. Get it down to Laboratoire Garnier, get some white coats crowding round the test tube. That sounds dangerous. It's a spy film imagined by a nine year old boy who's just come out of Octopussy , wide eyed. Flatley plays Victor Blackley, a secret agent known as "Blackbird", the leader of a faction of Irish spies working out of Westminster. Okay. They're known as "The Chieftains", and I'm going to assume they're the best of the best. But we don't know that, because now it's ten years later and Victor is the ma...
