Not bad, but far from great

Rating: 7/10 (9 October 2019)

PROS

Joker is not the obvious superhero movie.
It's pretty intense and disturbing
Joaquin Phoenix's performance

CONS

When it chooses to be a character study, it reminds us that everything done by "Joker" was done better by Taxi Driver, or the King of Comedy, 40 years ago.
From the beginning we know he's beyond redemption and that he's gonna become a crazy murderer, so... no surprises
The Joker we see here doesn't seem intellectually capable of becoming the criminal mastermind of the comics.