Brilliant, plain and simple....

Rating: 8/10 (24 November 2019)

I've seen this film twice now at the IMAX, and it just gets better. Like everyone else I expect (as with Rami Malek last year) that Joaquin Phoenix will be a shoe-in for all of the major Best Actor awards (he is currently better than odds-on in the UK for both the BAFTA & the Oscar) and very deservedly so. His almost schizophrenic performance is both sensitive and brutal; haunting and terrifying in equal measure; the screenplay is engrossing and Todd Phillips keeps you captivated for a terrific two hours of cinema. Given current events in Hong Kong and, to a lesser extent, the activities of Extinction Revolution; the ending depicted here does not seem nearly as far-fetched as it ought to!! Super stuff!