Ordinary Film backed by a Extraordinary Performance

Rating: 5/10 (8 October 2019)

Think of what you always thought Joker's origin story was, I will give you a second to think, Exactly right that's the story of this film. All the layers of beautifully haunting cinematography and a score feels like a character in itself backed with a performance that is going to haunt me for the rest of my life doesn't excuse the fact that Todd Philips really pulls of a Joker here. He resorts to the most basic tools to justify the actions of one of the most complicated villian of all time.
Todd mentioned in interviews most of the screenplay was re-written on the fly and you can feel that disjoint to a point that this film has 3 climaxes. Instead of crafting a story Arc which went from how Arthur became Joker it feels like ok so this Joker now let's work backwards and see how Arthur can be. Citing The King Of Comedy and Taxi Driver as an inspiration is one thing and pushing your story to go there is completely other and that's where Todd fails miserably on his rich but. He crafts a story that at the core of it is completely hollow, uninteresting, cliched and has nothing to say.
I give it 5 stars all of which is cos of what Joaquin did, it's one thing emersing yourself in a role and it's a completely different thing just baring your soul and that's only wish the writers and director had that soul.
Joker is like a big birthday present that you open and there's another box and then another and after you open all of them there's nothing inside and you make a fool of yourself and that's exactly how Joker made me feel.