Eric Jaap

Once again hollywood has fooled us with yet another trendy, yet vastly over rated film. I can dare say that the trailer had shown a good deal of promise. Yet, after close examination, “Joker” is nothing but an ocean sized puddle. A barrage of senseless, unorthodox quirks, makes the madman incredibly cringy. That, combined with the unnecessarily slow, anticlimactic storyline; makes those 2 hours feel like 4. And half of the movie is just cutscenes with Joaquin uncontrollably laughing like a weirdo. To me this film is low grade abstract art. With people around the world obsessing over trying to interpret the meaning of it. When in reality, hardly any of what we witnessed really made sense at all; and certainly wasn’t important or moving. Maybe my expectations got the better of me, but I was hoping to see the transformation of a protagonist figure into that of a despicable villain. Yet, The Joker had absolutely 0 redeeming qualities, no charm, no charisma, no love for others, no intelligence. Just a collection of mental illnesses that practically held up a sign that said “hopeless” from the opening scene. Which cancelled out any other attempts they made to try and humanize him.