Skip the 1/0 and 10/10 of read my actual unbiased review.

Rating: 6/10 (6 October 2019)

Lets start with the obvious, any scores of 1 or 10 are to be ignored as they tend to be comic book nerd scores (1 means Marvel fan, 10 means DC fan).
This movie really has me mixed on what to think about it. I understand they wanted to make a movie about what makes someone turns into a villian, so they decided later having it be about Joker would make people actually want to see it. Which is why I give it such a low score. If you needed Joker in it in order to get people to see it, then maybe it wasn't a good movie then.
I love Joker (the character). I've loved every iteration of him. And I can see why they chose him because he does fit the part for what they wanted. And while they do state this Joker is its own alternate universe sort of Joker, it still feels off. It feels more like a movie about a unstable man, but with some Batman lore stuff hinted throughout just to make it more appealing.
Am I saying the movie is terrible? Not by any means. It was actually pretty good. If anything Phoenix did an amazing job making you care about Arthur yet also feeling creeped out by him. I should also note this movie is in NO way for kids.
If Joker was removed from it and it was just a movie about a man gone bad, I'd give it a 8 or 9 probably. But again, using Joker as the selling point since they said no one wanted to see it otherwise, really made me deduct points.