Grey, gritty and nightmarish

Rating: 10/10 (6 October 2019)

Joaquin pheonix's JOKER is a gritty and nightmarish character study of Travis Bickle-esque "Arthur fleck" aka the JOKER who descends into madness for personally justifiable reasons.
The film does draw inspirations from Martin Scorsese's TAXI DRIVER and THE KING of COMEDY but it's nothing like any of them. Its actually gives us a more deeper look at Travis bickle from TAXI DRIVER.
Now, let's talk about the Joaquin Pheonix..of course I can't confine my admiration for him just to an IMDB review but anyway. Joaquin's performance is absolutely brilliant, menacing and terrorizing as the JOKER. He totally gives you the creeps. Having said this, although his portrayal of the character is brutally violent towards the finish, the intentional slow burn of the film gives you enough time to know him that you can't help but empathize with the character at least in some darkest corner of your mind.
Who played it best: for this I'd say until Heath ledger terrified the world with his brilliant performance in the dark Knight we couldn't think of anybody else who could play it like jack nicholson and he undoubtedly superceded jack Nicholson's portrayal in the 1989 BATMAN.
And now with JOKER Joaquin undoubtedly inherited the throne Heath left.👏👏👏👏👏
Only if he were alive Heath would have lauded Joaquin's performance.thats how it works in any art form. There can be no ABSOLUTES what so ever. Ever body contributes to the medium.
So i'd say kudos to Jack, Heath and JOAQUIN FREAKING PHEONIX
Todd Philips I thank you so much for giving us such a great movie about the character we all love.
I so so wish Matt Reeves considers Joaquin to play the joker in his upcoming Batman film if at all he plans to have a Joker in the film.
Make way for GOTHAM'S new Clown Prince of Crime.