Looks and acting= amazing, writing=lazy

Rating: 6/10 (23 October 2019)

Pros are obviously Joaquin is amazing and the direction is competent and it's beautiful and I actually liked a lot of the changes they've made Bc it's an origins story. Cinematography= excellent. I love the grittiness, the swearing, the constant chain smoking, the blood, the scene in the apt when he murders the guy with the knife and lets the little man go was great, the girlfriend thing being all in his head was great, joaquins dancing was great....
Cons= a lot of the writing was just lazy. He got away from murder way too easily (literally nobody was in the subway tunnel= needlessly convenient) the murders of 3 random punk kids starting a crazy movement of violence was unbelievable and stupid (they weren't important at all just 3 rich kids with no explanation?) although I liked the idea of Thomas Wayne being a bad guy pretty much every scene with him was stupid (the joker sneaks into the theatre so easily during the protests=stupid) the end where he gets murdered in the alley during the violence was really stupid and so lazy (the guy was running for mayor and had no body guards or anything= totally forced the Batman connection). I liked the themes but they were way too overt, like when he basically rants on tv about his mental illness before shooting Robert deniro... totally not like the joker at all... I don't care if it's supposed to be like that.. it could have been a lot more subtle and natural but wasn't... and finally, although it was gritty and dark... I feel like they were still way too careful and preachy... like I was expecting him to kill a lot more people and honestly hoping for it because that's what the joker does especially for his origin story! Everyone is obsessing over it and saying it's amazing but I really just think that it fell short on Way too many levels. Worth the watch and definitely more bold than most but could've been great and simply isn't.