Not entirely sure what I just watched but certain that I didn’t enjoy it. A guy with a bird fetish goes mad?? I mean errr I don’t want to state the obvious here but. Watched on SKY Cinema.

2 hours I’ll never get back. Strange lust for birds that makes audience very uncomfortable. Bird costume was a nice touch. Mr Cage was ripped.

If you ever want to watch a movie about a young man obsession with being a bird....... you are in for a treat in this unforgettable film.

So weird, creepy, depressing.

A film with high ideals, perhaps, to show us how war affects people, but it is let down by the fact that Birdy has always been a very strange individual and, to be frank, he seems just the same (albeit even more withdrawn) after his Vietnam experiences. Al is the more interesting character and his insecurities eventually reveal themselves. A lot of the film is made up of mawkish flashbacks to Birdy and Al's childhood, which can be tedious. Eventually the film approaches some kind of conclusion, then falls apart at the very end. It's well acted and is better than I'm making it sound but, honestly, don't expect anything profound here.

It's a funny idea for a person to be so obsessed about becoming a bird to the point where he wants to be one, but this film makes you really believe that these people do exist.

The ending was stupid and the movie had no satifying conclusion. As a Vietnam vet, I thought it was misleading and not representative of us vets.

Often, the written word on the page is more impactful than what we see as a visual on the screen – such is the case with Birdy, Alan Parker's adaptation of William Wharton's novel. That's not to say that the film, despite some clunky ham-fisted dialogue, a horrible final scene and an annoying music score, is a bad movie because it isn't. It simply doesn't live up to the magic that Wharton created in the book. It's the story of two friends suffering from the ravages of war, one recovering physically while the other deals with deeply rooted psychological issues. Matthew Modine and Nicholas Cage are fine in the lead roles and the story is intriguing, despite the fact that it starts to eventually wear thin. It's probably safe to say that the movie will be appreciated more by those who have not read the novel.

Beautiful film with top notch performances from Modine and Cage. Great Peter Gabriel score too.

So a sh*ty ending stupidly ruins a decent story of a traumatized friendship... So the guy is clearly faking or maybe he miraculously recovered. And then the movie ends without a real conclusion... Bummer!

The film has strong qualities present with both its subject matter and Matthew Modine's body language acting, but the dramatic lead character demands for an actor who can come across as believable for 90% of the film. Cage, does not.

The 80s were a different time in moviemaking, I guess.

Alan Parker's adaptation of William Wharton's novel about two unlikely high school confidantes corralling post-traumatic stress disorder of a war throbs with homosexual overtones and sentimentality of sanity regained in a world in bedlam.

This movie was very badly written. Plot boils to a complete waste of time and ends so abruptly. Movie follows main character, "Birdy", which has a strange fascination for birds and the ability to fly. This movie will have viewers cringing as him and his unlikely best friend "Al" have two different coming of age mementos, Al having a social, Interactive, and enjoyable experience, and "Birdy", an being an eccentric and awkward teenager, having a very isolated and bland time. Truthfully, it was painful watching this character completely waste his adolescence on his unhealthy obsession for birds. As both friends become adults, and enlist in the Army during the Vietnam war, "Birdy's" disturbing nature follows him into battle. Both men affected by the war differently, Al has to heal physically while fighting to win his friend's sanity back."Birdy's"character stands out to be truly selfish, putting his family, best friend, and staff of Military Hospital through a tough time trying to rehabilitate him with his complete mental breakdown that, quite frankly, wasn't caused truly by the conflicts of war, but by his insignificant personal tragedies. Overall, it was enjoyable seeing a young, Nicolas Cage (Al), demonstrate his acting chop's range for this Adult drama, but quite frankly this movie did not live up to its potential.

Birdy definitely wasn't the one flying anywhere near to the cuckoo's nest, but most of the weirdness in the movie is cute, or funny, or enchanting, against the small portions of weird stupid/boring. With a weird-lovely finale also.

If I could rate it 6 I would. Wonderful, poignant storyline from two Actor's who have gone on to bigger and brighter things. One of my favourite 80's flicks

Great movie, great acting, great story.

Takes too long to peak and when it does it's for a few moments. Depressing in general.

Although it may seem silly at times due to the peculiar subject in which it explores real emotions and feelings, Parker allways had great skill in depicting human decadence and how the mind breaks with ease, and that is a good enough reason to appreciate what he presented here.

The flashbacks are much more interesting than the angsty awards-bait of the mental asylum sections, and they slowly move to the background as the movie goes along so it gets a bit insufferable in the third act. Birdy is a pretty fascinating character at first, but his obsession gets so absurd there's a point at which I became more sympathetic to all the people calling him a nut who needed to get out of the house. Cage is good.