Phoenix is incredible in this old school dark twist on the superhero genre

Rating: 8/10 (15 October 2019)

After years of superhero films with massive budgets and incredible CGI, of which there is nothing wrong, it was great to see a film that was just that, a great film with a great story that was brilliantly acted, without the need for massive special effects.
I really can see this being the film that launches 1000 copy cats and creates is own genre, blurring the line of good and evil.
I was slightly concerned that now the moral overtone could become that the bad are bad because the rich made them that way and so become the victims but maybe that's just another new perspective.
Whatever is a brilliant film and phoenix deserves an Oscar for it. The best lead I have seen this year without doubt.