Blackbird review: Michael Flatley is found wanting in clichéd and wildly improbable spy thriller

Blackbird will leave you rather more shaken than stirred.

Blackbird starring Michael Flatley. Picture: Brian Doherty

★★☆☆☆

Michael Flatley isn’t the first dancer to direct himself in a movie – Gene Kelly is probably the best known of that rare breed – and probably won’t be the last, even if Blackbird (15A), Flatley’s new spy thriller, is unlikely to start a stampede of Hollywood producers determined to have a dancer-director helm their next project.