High quality production standards only brought down by a mundane plot

Rating: 8/10 (27 January 2020)

Every technical aspect of this film is seriously impressive, top notch. The screenplay is fantastic, and the acting is flawless, as far as I could notice. That's what makes this film worth experiencing - however, it's let down by an unsatisfying plot which could be summed up as an escapist film like Office Space, but for serial killers.
It's essentially the pipe dream of a murderer - nearly ever murder he achieves causes colossal waves across the society of gotham city - people stand up in his defence, and are inspired by him. The first set of murders started a city-wide protest against the group which he had shot - the second public murder turned that protest into a massive riot.
But why? If the city is such a bad state, and so full of crime and misconduct that it's at boiling point, surely random murders are commonplace. His actions just don't fit the requisites for being the catalyst as they're shown in the plot. If the civil unrest started only after his murder of the talk show host, the plot would make far more sense.