just an other piece of popular entertainment, not an incitement toward violence.

Rating: 5/10 (26 January 2020)

Joker is a bad movie, yes: It's predictable, clichéd, deeply derivative of other, better movies, and overwritten to the point of self-parody... The experience of sitting through it is highly unpleasant, but that unpleasantness has less to do with graphic violence-there are only one or two scenes that go hard, gore-wise-than with claustrophobia and boredom.
Acting however is good and the visuals are also ok.
It lacks originality. It copies a lot from The King of Comedy and Taxi Driver. Sometimes, scenes.
It's repetetive. You have three Joker running scenes, three Joker struggling to talk scenes, three Joker dancing scenes... etc.
It focus so much on the Joker, that doesn't really develop the other aspects of the movie (decay in society, the elite vs the poor) with the excuse "it's from Joker's point of view".
it has a lot of poorly supported choices by characters that are just lazy.