A brilliantly uncomfortable movie...

Rating: 10/10 (15 November 2019)

Joker is not your typical comic book movie. To be completely honest, this movie could work equally as well if Arthur Flek wasn't to become the infamous Batman villain the Joker & just follow an original characters struggle with mental illness & demise into insanity.
The movie is dark, it's gritty & can be very uncomfortable. This isn't a bad thing though, it's an absolutely brilliant movie that almost puts the viewer into the shoes of Arthur Flek, a very down trodden & mentally troubled individual. I actually am amazed how well done the film is, Todd Phillips is known mostly for writing & directing comedies such as Old School & The Hang Over so was highly impressed he could transition from slapstick comedy to such an epic dark masterpiece. The story flow, the dialogue, the no dialogue, the cinematography, the colours, the soundtrack & the script just all mesh together perfectly.
Joaquin Phoenix is also brilliant! He is almost in every frame of the movie and he's acting is just powerful & eerily realistic.
That's about as much as I can say without spoilers. Don't let the fact this is an origin story of a comic book character stop you from seeing this movie. As I said, it be great as a stand alone movie & it's just so well shot & well done overall it's very much worth seeing in theatres while it's still showing.
Easily best film release of 2019