Just not a good movie.

Rating: 2/10 (18 November 2019)

Allow me to be the critic. I was not impressed with this film nor did I find it funny, clever, or really even remotely interesting.
My G/F begged me to watch it with her and I'm sorry, I just could not find anything redeeming about it at all. I asked her honest opinion about it before I gave mine additionally and she said it was really bad and not at all something she would want to see again.
I voiced my opinion to her and I think she was surprised. I think she expected that I would've liked it, as a man's film. But I didn't.
And this is after she sees the latest Saw movie and Green Inferno and gives those her thumbs up.
Heath Ledger in the Dark Knight did so much better. And all the praise he gets is rightly deserved. THAT film is excellent. He was intelligent, cunning, and had a damned interesting personality and mental design. And THAT particular Joker is tops compared to this schizophrenic mess by the same name.
This is crap. Plain and simple. Violence for the sake of violence. The story is disjointed and ugly. With big time emphasis on ugly. There are zero scenes in here I would ever care to see again.
Scenes are set-up like cardboard dolls specifically playing out predictable and disgusting designs for the sole sake of predictable shock value.
If there is one point of interest, I see how highly it is rated by the general public and I suspect this is not artificial inflation but the state of our reviewers today, and if there is anything worse than this movie it surely must be the people who rate it so highly as artistic and cult-worthy.
If this is what is desirable, mindless violence and deeply disturbing psychotic behavior, than so be it. But I won't be a part of it - I won't support it - I won't watch it.
I only give this two marks. One for the obvious amount of work that went into this train wreck, obvious nods to the original Batman saga, and two it had some memorable music at points. But not enough for me to EVER watch it again. Disgusting waste of my time and money.
(11-17-19) --dw817