Jeremiah Burns

This movie is more a documentary about Mental Illness and Poverty than having anything really to do with the Joker as a villain in the Batman stories. I was honestly bored out of my mind during this movie. There was no action, 1 semi funny moment, and it was about 45 minutes too long. I was so excited to see this movie and found myself thinking the entire time, "OK it's got to turn that corner and get good now." Nope. This was a 2 hour movie that should've been a 30 minute at most character development to the real movie. The only positive I can say is Joaquin Phoenix's acting was incredible! You can tell the work he put into this role and the commitment was 100% there. There was a small moment when he's walking down the stairs and the transformation from Arthur Fleck to Joker has really happened that you get excited about chaos about to be unleashed, but disappointingly nothing really happens. I'm left hoping for a second Joker movie that becomes the movie we all hoped this was going to be now that we lost 2 hours of our life watching a film I wouldn't call dark, just depressing. Arthur said, "I've never been happy for 1 second of my life." For 2 hours and 2 minutes I understood where he was coming from.