King Of Network Taxi Driver aka The Gen Z version of The Joker

Rating: 1/10 (6 October 2019)

This movie is a basic carbon copy of plots lifted from the movies Taxi Driver ,The King of Comedy and Network.
Act 1 features the introduction of Arthur who is playing a mentally deranged clown that is just walking the footsteps of Travis Bickle through Gotham City. You begin feeling sorry for Arthur as you quickly learn he is a poor lonely soul harboring mental problems. He has a sick mother who is the added key plot point to tie his Joker character to the Batman aka Bruce Wayne.
Act 2 Arthur slowly descends into madness while developing an interest in being a comedian combined with an obsession over a late night talk show host. Essentially The King of Comedy with a tongue in cheek twist. The talk show host is played by Robert DeNiro *wink,wink*
Act 3 is just a slow dragging transition from The King of Comedy and Taxi Driver motifs towards the final manic crescendo which echos an in your face near carbon copy lift of the Howard Beale rant and meltdown execution on live TV from the film Network. They even lifted the iconic scene from Network in which the camera pans out to several monitors inside a TV studio control room featuring random commercials, various news broadcasts and of course the man of the hour Arthur who has now emerged as the Joker
The end result ties it all together as an introduction to yet another comic book character villain. Most audiences under the age of 34 will completely vibe with this amalgamation of classic films. The current 18-34 age group tend to possess a blissful ignorance towards "old" movies and the general consensus among the youth of today is a total disdain for the nostalgia of anything before the year 2000. For someone who grew up in the 70's 80's and 90's this movie is nothing but a slap in the face and a gut punch to lovers of great cinema who are being inundated with banal, unoriginal film making combined with a flagrant unabashed piracy of storytelling