Michael Flatley may have been the Lord of the Dance but he’s more a Serf of the Cinema - with his critically panned attempt at a James-Bond style spy flick taking in just £50k in its opening weekend.
With Blackbird's hilariously cliched premise of the troubled titular secret agent retiring from service and opening a luxurious Caribbean nightclub to ‘escape the dark shadows of his past’, there has been talk the film could eventually achieve cult status.
But that remains to be seen as, according to BFI figures, this bird has so far flown only one way – and that’s straight down the toilet.
