The Joker Doesn't Need to be an Anti-Hero

Rating: 4/10 (7 November 2019)

There wasn't really anything that made me believe that Phoenix was the Joker other than his makeup and laugh. He's the proto-Joker, I guess, but still I don't see much of a resemblance. I'm not a fan of the comics and I don't know all of the lore behind the Joker but this take on the character seems to me like an attempt at making something as serious and gritty as The Dark Knight without the success. There isn't much complexity to a character and story that warrants complexity. The motivations of most characters don't make sense and the Joker just becomes cool out of nowhere towards the end of the movie.