2019 Cinema declining year by year

Rating: 5/10 (1 September 2019)

I will keep this as brief as I can. You can have a good acting performance (in this case Joaquin Phoenix) andbat the same time have an, IMO, very average film labeled as a DC film aka a comic book film but really it just being a character film of th making of a serial killer. In this case Joker is absolutely false advertisement. Should have been called Arthur or Decent into Madness. I went in expecting a complex story and what o got was a mix of Taxi Driver, King of Comedy, some Joker Gotham tie ins and an,IMO weak script and plot. I will be in the minority in this age of hype but this movie is not on the scale of true masterpieces like Se7en, Leon, The Usual Suspects. Joaquin may get nominated for awards but as film I would not nominate this film due to its weak script. The best in the film, the acting of Joaquin and the cinematography. Everything else is meh.