You joking at me?

Rating: 8/10 (11 October 2019)

If you ignore the "greatest film ever" shouts from people who have probably never watched a non comic book movie this a surprisingly strong effort. It goes all out in its attempts to re-imagine a fairly one note villain as the subject of a Scorsese outsider character study and actually manages to escape from under the weight of its much referenced influences to stand as its own take on the subject. It might not have much new to say but the outstanding cinematography and a top form Joachim Phoenix lift the film above the usual genre fair and only occasionally overblown direction and a clunky, completely unnecessary "evil society" monologue hold it back.