Even Joaquin couldn't save this plot

Rating: 6/10 (10 October 2019)

Joaquin is amazing in this movie, but even he couldn't save this mishmash of regurgitated plot points stolen from far superior films. Abused child grows up to be psychotic, yeah scene that film before. It made just about no sense why Arthur becomes the joker. Ok, he's ill I get it, and he laughs uncontrollably, I get it and this was way overused in the movie, by the end I just wanted him to stop freaking laughing! So he gets beat up once, then almost a second time, kills some guys and then is like ok I'll kill my tv comic hero because he said a couple mean things to me, sorry not buying it. Also, nice way to rip off Heath's police car ride on the way to the payoff, which is him standing on a car taking a bow and becoming the Joker, what garbage.