Shouldn't have been a Batman Movie

Rating: 5/10 (21 October 2019)

This movie did not have to be associated with Batman, yet they forced in the Wayne family even as far as to have a clown mask-wearing henchmen be the catalyst for Batman's origin. It felt like the writer had no idea where to take the film after Arthur shoots Murray.
This could have been a great story about a depressed person whom the system fails that cracks and commits a series of atrocities. But the fact that I was supposed to believe this guy is Batman's arch-nemesis the whole movie left me wanting. At no point did I believe this guy could inspire others to violence - his supposed attack on the elite on the subway was a guy shooting in self-defense after getting his ass kicked. There's no way I would believe that would be the tipping point to spark the riots in the last half of the movie.
And the Zazie Beetz "reveal" that she and Arthur weren't really a thing- if you believed that the romance was not a hallucination of a sick man when we are CLEARLY watching the movie from his perspective, then shame on you... but the fact that Todd Phillips felt the need to show the romance was a fabrication was an insult to the audience.
I was extremely bored in the film, didn't think it deserved the buzz it received, and it left me just feeling sad.