Christopher Watkins

Joker: Folie à Deux – A Waste of Time & Money It’s not often I leave a movie and wish I could get a refund, but this film was not only a subverting of the expectations of fans, but also an absolutely pointless movie! You’re honestly better off having watched the original and just assume “The Joker” is forever locked up at Arkham Asylum. Spoilers… Arrthur Fleck had a difficult and traumatic life and had a mental and an emotional breakdown. Having never amounted to anything he was going to kill himself on The Murray Show, but in a last second moment of outrage he killed the host on live TV. Arthur gets his 15 minutes of fame and later returns to a depressed state where he wants to die. A sequel is made giving him another 15 minutes of fame and shortly after he loses all hope and wants to die. The State wants to sentence him to death. He fights it unsuccessfully, proving he’s not insane nor is “The Joker” a split personality. After nearly 3 hours of this he dies. What A Joke There’s a certain level of expectation around The Joker, “The Clown Prince of Crime.” The stakes are raised when you bring in Harley Quinn! With the first film having explored the emotional and psychological and physical trauma of Arthur Fleck and what drives him to becoming The Joker was an interesting look at this infamous villain. With a sequel being made you think you’re going to get The Joker as an absolute agent of chaos and unleashing it upon Gotham. The expectation is that this sequel would be the rise of Joker. I imagined the movie showing the absolute mayhem of Joker and Harley Quinn and then showing it from his perspective as this crazy musical. What you get is a movie about Arthur Fleck being a loser and giving up and then having disappointed a psychotic fan and inmate he gets stabbed to death. The End