Missed opportunity

Rating: 1/10 (27 October 2019)

any motion picture that has Laurence Sheer(the cinematographer) + Joaquin Phoenix built in a Gotham setting will be a success.

the movie argues that Arthur was pushed into this "madness" as a result of unfair, unjust and down right cruel society that Gotham was (how cliche) - nothing fun about that. a big part of the joker character (for me at least) was the joy he took in the chaos he created and this was rushed over by the director. Nothing to celebrate any where in the movie.

the dialogue was extremely poor. Complexity of the character should have been exercised in words rather than just staring into mirrors and through the glass windows.

some intense scenes were unnecessary. Just because it's overwhelming doesn't earn it the right to be part of the story.

not a whole lot of originality. too many scenes were copied or "inspired" by and from other movies: Nolan's Dark knight, Scorsese's king of comedy and Taxi Driver.

and ofcourse, anything that audience can't relate to is justified by "well, it's joker! It's not suppose to make sense"

Bottom line, don't think too much of it. Not a bad movie but everyone needs to calm down or perhaps the bar is set so low now that....
Oh and the "joker laugh"....lets just say, it was also poor.