Mark Kermode has struck again – he’s torn a film to shreds so much that people are now considering seeing it.

The film critic shared his review for new release Blackbird, which is a passion project by Lord of the Dance creator Michael Flatley.

Flatley writes, directs and stars in the film, which he has described as “a tribute to the golden age of cinema”. However, according to Kermode: “I think a session on the golden toilet of cinema is closer.”

The film, which Kermode called “mind-bendingly terrible”, follows a retired secret agent whose past comes back to haunt him after opening a nightclub in Barbados.

Reviews of the film have seen the film branded “fabulously bad” and “oddly entertaining” – but Kermode has gone out on a limb to call Blackbird “genuinely one of the worst films I have ever seen”, telling his followers: “As we all know, I’ve seen Oversexed Rugsuckers From Mars.