NO CGI or kiddy nonsense, just INCREDIBLE ACTING AND DRAMA!

Rating: 7/10 (27 October 2019)

This is STRICTLY drama, finely presented by Phoenix. Not for kids, there's nothing in this for them (or the kid in any of us) but we're taken on a journey of a man's decent into his own darkness. Not all his fault or his doing. The disturbed parentage certainly didn't help matters.
What was a departure from what we THOUGHT we knew was that the Wayne parents (according to this film) were killed by a copycat "Joker", the protagonist of this film was unconscious on top of a squad car at the time. All the prior installments depict this man as the Wayne murderer, so you'll have to grapple with that lack of logic, I don't know what their purpose was for doing that.
If you want to view some fine acting and a story with DEPTH, this would be good but kids will glean nothing from it, it's not for them. Note that they only spent $55M to make it and it's already nearing $1B income, now there's a positive switch! Personally, I'm sick of Marvel nonsense but it has it's place.
What I would like to see are more installments and a history of "Joker's" rise to power, how he acquires a crew, some of the jobs they do along the way and how they stay under the radar for ~30 years until the Batman comes on the scene. In this film, Joker meets young Bruce, entertaining him as the clown/magician he once was professionally, that was an interesting twist to the whole thing.