Do not buy the hype!

Rating: 4/10 (5 October 2019)

The popularity and the high ratings centered around this movie is due to Heath Ledger's successful portrayal of the Joker character. While Heath's performance was A-Class, it was still somewhat overrated due to his suicide and alleged but never-confirmed gossip about his suicide relating to his portrayal of Joker.
Joaquin Phoenix has been a drama queen and did some weird stuff on TV to regain his lost popularity and therefore people slowly began to see him as an offbeat rogue actor and this allowed him to take on the Joker role.
The movie itself, tries to make profit from Phoenix's cooked up antics by always trying to close in on his face while he is moaning or trying to laugh in an out of the ordinary matter.
Heath Ledger's character was successful but the camera was never too much in his face. His laughter and his aura spread naturally. However in Phoenix's Joker, director Todd Phillips tried to capitalize too much on the hype of Phoenix's real life antics and Heath Ledger's successful Joker performance by always zooming in on Joker's face in a way to force his mentally unstable state upon the viewers rather then letting the viewesr decide for themselves.
On the other hand, the movie is very slow and has unexplainable plot holes. Not recommended.