Brilliant film

Rating: 10/10 (15 October 2019)

This film was amazing and lived up to the hype and expectations. Phoenix is superb and delivers an incredible performance truly worthy of an Oscar next year. This is a very dark and mature film and totally different to any other comic book film you've seen and that's why I love it. This is more like a scorsese film and you can easily see how they were inspired by the king of comedy and taxi driver. The music throughout is excellent and really helps set the mood and tone of the film. The direction by Phillips is great and the way he let's the movie unfold slowly and takes his time with turning Arthur into the joker is great. Also who would have known Philips was this good of a director considering his last films were the hangover trilogy. I've seen a few people moan about it being slow but you can't just start the film with him as the joker. That slow pace at the start was essential to show us why Arthur became the joker. And then the payoff at the end when he becomes the joker is worth the wait. The final 20mins or so are epic and I love the way it ties into batman's story as well. Forget the rubbish people are saying about this film being to violent or inspiring violence. That's rubbish yes this film is pretty violent at times but you will see a lot worse in other films. And this film isn't telling us what the joker is doing is right. The point of the films overall message is the government need to look after people like Arthur and people in society need to treat people well. So overall a brilliant film that I look forward to seeing again and everyone needs to watch