Realistic reputations'

Rating: 9/10 (19 November 2019)

Honestly, I approached this with such skepticism because the iconic heath ledgers joker really set the bar very very high and set the reputation of the level of genuine realism in his character (not being a far fetched villain). But, these skepticisms were brushed aside with an excellent and progressive execution of the Character that was made so good by Heath! An example of how it could go wrong in subtle ways would be Jared Leto's Joker portrayal (hahah). This movie felt like such a phenomenal necessity for the Jokers' back story and it felt like the actor was so in cue, he had small ties to how Heath portrayed his character which kept his unfortunate legacy, very much alive. This also gave the joker quite an anti-hero tone to the movie and didn't paint him as a bad guy to start off. It was only through the movies development where there were sprinkles of villainous behaviour stemming from externalities, which then culminated into something much more in the ending. A very worthy performance and I find my self excited for what's to come from Joaquin Phoenix's character. Overall this in depth story was completely needed.