Very hard to top Heath Ledger, but Joaquin Phoenix is close behind.

Rating: 10/10 (10 October 2019)

Set in the early 1980's, working clown Arthur Fleck(Joaquin Phoenix) a man who is heavily medicated, cause he is suffereing from mental illness, dreams of being a famous stand up comic, but his world begins crumble, will his sanity be lost, and his identity is only seen through his joker make up?

I get this is a totally different Joker movie, very different from the DC universe movies we have seen already. Phoenix is quite chilling to watch, as you watch him lose his mind. The movie borrows heavily from such films like Taxi Driver(1976) and The King of Comedy(1983). Robert De Niro is pretty memorable has Murray Hamilton, a Johnny Carson like talk show host. Phoenix really delivers a great performance, you can tell he became the character when the camera was rolling. One problem I had they showed the death of Bruce Wayne's parents, which I felt was not needed, better to be hinted at it instead, and the end keeps dragging itself out, to the point you'll be telling yourself end already. But other than that a good film.