Overrated as Hell

Rating: 5/10 (17 March 2020)

The only good thing about this film is Joaquin Phoenix's performance, everything else was meh. The directing was pretentious, the music score was just that generic cello score we hear in every thriller, the story has been done better in other films such as Taxi Driver, American Psycho, and King of Comedy (which Joker heavily ripped off). It is not a masterpiece, and it did not deserve 11 Oscar nominations, the fact that this got more nominations than The Lighthouse is unacceptable. Oh and that bathroom dance scene, I'm sorry but I laughed at how artsy it thought it was being, it was just embarrassing.