A movie that didn't need to be made.

Rating: 3/10 (22 October 2019)

Although Joaquin Phoenix did an incredible job, this backstory trip into the pathos of the Joker could have been achieved equally as well with a few lines in another movie. It's incredibly predictable. I am one who doesn't mind a slow brewing movie as long as there's a point to it, which this movie achieved in its first slow closeup. Every one after that was like, "here, you want some more slow? How about an extra serving of maudlin? Would you like some whine with that?"