Interesting, if you survive the first hour

Rating: 6/10 (23 October 2019)

Joaquin Phoenix is amazing as always. The depth of character he develops is astounding. Although his performance is flawless, I find the movie kind of lacking... The situations leading to him becoming the Joker(I hope that's not a spoiler for you, the movie is an origin story) are absurd to say the least. Things that probably wouldn't happen in real life. Probably intended as a slow build-up, the first hour of the movie is exhaustingly slow, which kind of relieves all the tension it's supposed to create... There are a couple of really good ideas in it(still talking about that first hour of the movie), which don't really make up for the not so good ones. The movie takes a turn to the interesting side after that, and it is interesting. Also, let me say, that this is Robert de Niro's first non-swearing, non-aggresive role in a while, which is really refreshing.