Not the Gotham We Know

Rating: 6/10 (11 January 2020)

Joker is a great movie with a great performing Joaquin Phoenix and all in all the movie is a really fine piece of a drama. But, and this is a big but, the Joker and story of the movie (Wayne Senior a rich numbhead, Clown movement as a civil outrage - here we get all the modern zeitgeist and pc stuff again, and of course bad and bullying guys wear suits etc.) does not fit into the canon of Batman and Gotham City. The "real" Joker you rather get in the new animation show Harley Quinn (a good one!) - I just cannot detect much of the genius evil madness of the "old" Joker in Phoenix's one. As a drama I would rate Joker 8 or even 9 but as it is sold to us as a Joker movie 6 it is.
Last note: if you are able to shut down all the stuff you know about Gotham, Batman and the real Joker, you will enjoy Phoenix's Joker, if not, you probably won't that much.