Impressive performance, good movie but not a masterpiece

Rating: 8/10 (8 October 2019)

I'm analyzing this movie in a most neutral way possible. To me it sits between a 7 and an 8. There a few things that hold its high rating back . For instance he becomes the agent of chaos of the city only as a side effects of his acts when you think about it. Killing first by self defense and then again because he's pissed at being made fun of. For a Joker in the making , that's poor IMO. There absolutely zero context / introduction to the suit which surprised me . In fact , the script got a scene where he put that suit to go to his mother's funeral before going to the TV show which is a great introduction and gives it a deeper meaning for the movie and joker character in general. I mean , what would be batman begins without the origin of the suit in it... see my point ? No idea why they cut this great idea out of the movie. And finally you never feel even at the end when the city riot , even though the shot with the blood on his face is very nice , that there is that moment where he finally snap for good, that juicy Joker moment you dream of seeing the nervous laughs becoming the dark intentional laugh. The climax is short and a bit underwhelming as he just dance again awkardly for the ..... 4th time... ? Phoenix was very good but people seems to mix good performance and good movie for their rating. A good movie is the sums of its parts which again is why I think Phoenix bring it up a notch to touch the 8 out 10... but otherwise perfect masterpiece 10 movie? Not at all.