Birdemic is less than amateur, like a backyard movie made by teenagers. The script is two stories patched together and it's still thin. Dialogue is awkward, characters are shallow, motivation is nonexistent, chemistry is embarrassing, plot points go nowhere, cliches are constant, everything is illogical, and the premise is a ripoff. Plus, while there's an environmentalism theme, it's painfully obvious, repetitive, and preachy. Meanwhile, the acting is cringey. The main actor is especially stiff and dull, preoccupied with fumbling his lines. The supporting cast isn't great but the protagonist is a prime example of acting unnaturally. Thus, Birdemic is laughably empty.
Technically, Birdemic is a disaster. The music uses an unneeded song and repetitive loops. Its plugin effects are cheap and ill-fitting. The grainy video imagery adds clumsy motion, obscuring lighting, uneven color grading, and weird focus. Its incredibly boring editing has unreasonable fluff, inconsistent continuity, unestablished spacing, rough jump cuts, and mismatched flow. The cast is novice and the production design is scavenged. Finally, its sound offers dropouts, abrupt cuts, messy leveling, annoying repetition, inaudible dialogue, and no consistency or room tone. Overall, Birdemic's incompetence highlights the significant training of even the most generic professional films.
Writing: 1/10
Direction: 0/10
Cinematography: 0/10
Acting: 0/10
Editing: 0/10
Sound: 0/10
Score/Soundtrack: 1/10
Production Design: 0/10
Casting: 0/10
Effects: 1/10
Overall Score: 0.3/10
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