The trailer was as good as the movie.

Rating: 7/10 (17 January 2020)

If you've seen the brilliant trailer to this movie the rest of it is kind of a letdown because the parts you fill in with your imagination are probably greater then the actual movie. As a big fan of noir, I really wanted to love this movie but I think it was a victim of its own hype. I wish I had watched it without knowing anything about it so I could be pleasantly surprised.
Joaquin Phoenix is great actor and he turned in a very good performance but his character wasn't that interesting. This Joker didn't have the over the top craziness of Jack Nicholson's or the unpredictable creepiness of Heath Ledger's. It was obvious that the filmmakers were trying to make him more sympathetic and relatable but really just kind of made him boring.
Joker wasn't a bad movie but I don't think it had much to ad to what's already been done in comic book movies or noir. The Christopher Nolan Batman movies were superior. Although this movie tries to make some ironic and critical messages about society, classic noir did it much better without being ostentatious.