No Masterpiece but it is good and a good depiction of mental illness!

Rating: 6/10 (12 November 2019)

I cannot believe how they have gone to town paying the shill warehouses in Pakistan and India to rate this movie 10/10 nearly every one of the 10/10 reviews is fake but I guess that and RT now , nothing is real in our virtual reality internet world sadly so here goes with an honest and fair review as always from me.
Joker is certainly not fake and it has a great performance from Joaquin but he tries hard but cannot match Heath Ledger unfortunately and I guess that was an impossible milestone to try and reach anyway but he does it well with what he has to work with.
The movie itself diverges wildy from the Batman CGI action fantasy overload and atmosphere and is a more true to life down at heel portrayal of a mentally ill person and I actually found it reminded me of Robert DeNiro in Taxi Driver - dark , depressing, down at heel but somehow it drags a story and good character development from the miasma and surprisingly in the end you are rooting for the bad guy and cheering when he offs all the rich and powerful characters and I guess that mirrors what 90% of the population are feeling in this day against all the lying , cheating and stealing Bankers, Politicians , Lawyers and the 1% who own 90% of the wealth and could be a rather portentous piece of film making.
I did enjoy the movie but it is in no way a masterpiece as some are saying but it is a good watch and delivers a more true to life depiction of what the Joker may have started out as but this will not please the Comic fans I surmise.
I do agree with a previous reviewer in that the modern viewing yoof must have very low expectations if they all think this is such a genius masterpiece, oh how low our standards have fallen since the days of Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Charles Bronson, Steve McQueen and all the glorious movies from back then that left you truly gasping when you left the cinema or enervated and full of hope for the future; nowadays you leave the cinema with the reinforcement that life truly is sh** for the majority of the populace and there is no hope for the future which is probably true but me personally I go to the cinema to be taken out of my life and to live in a fantasy world for an hour and 40 minutes and that Is what I pay for but hey-ho each to their own.
Good film a solid 6.5/10 but nowhere near a 10/10 which these shills forget means it is the best movie you have ever seen? With that in mind is it really worth 10/10 when compared with movies like Ben Hur or Planet Of The Apes or Alien etc???