Pretty Bird

In the film, the main character states that geniuses always die alone. If that's true, whoever made this movie should be fine as there is no real substance to the film. Pretty Bird follows a group of three men who create a jet pack like invention called the rocket Belt. It's cool but also pretty useless as it can only fly for about 30 seconds. The rest of the film is devoted to showing how this idea ends up driving the three apart. It's not a bad premise even though it's been done in other films, like The Social Network. But what really drags the film down is that it doesn't ever really seem to know what it wants to be. It bounces between the three main characters, but you never really get a sense of what this movie is trying to do. So it ends up feeling unnecessary like its invention. Speaking of unnecessary, the film also awkwardly introduces Kristen Wiig only for her character to not go anywhere or do anything in the film. Anna camp has a very small role in this film as a character named Becca (which should make all the Pitch Perfect fans laugh;). Sadly Anna only has two scenes, and neither of them are important. All of this would make for an okay movie if it weren't so slow and draw-out and boring.