Phoenix did not disappoint

Rating: 9/10 (13 October 2019)

I was really looking forward to Joker, mainly because Joaquin Phoenix was starring and really knows how to play a demented character. He played it better than I can adequately describe...and dare I say better than Ledger's Joker IMO. The only part of the movie that I feel didn't adequately gel with the character was the shooting of the talk show host played by DeNiro. There was almost an anit-hero sentiment for Joker and how outside forces built the monster, until the on-air shooting. I mean if he already had a following built from the Subway shootings, to me the on-air killing was incongruent with the character as I thought it was stupid. To me, any talk show host would have cut the show well before anyone was shot. That piece could have been better represented to keep with the other two hours of the movie. Anyway, I give it 9/10 stars because of the on-air shooting.