It was very American Psycho.

Rating: 7/10 (4 October 2019)

No spoilers. Like all origin stories it spends way too much time in character development. It also telegraphed it punches. Its is worth seeing just to watch Joaquin Phoenix's performance. It just that the movie did not seem to get the Joker character himself. Their simply was no sense of menace from the Joker, even toward the end of the movie. violence yes, but no menace. Yes I know some people will say the Joker is suppose to use his brain, not his brawn, but if so they did not even show that. Joaquin Phoenix's performance was amazing, but it simply did not convey "The Joker" like Heath Ledger, or even Jack Nicholson. IMHO even Jared Leto did a better job. The movie was as indicated above is very American Psycho, in tone, and delivery, including the message, if it was trying to portray a message, which I doubt, because that would have indicated a plot outside of decent into madness. FYI a group of teens left the movie about half way through, it obviously was not what they expected.