John Logan

If your kid is 12 PLEASE try to get them to watch this movie. Parents make it sound so bad that it's intense and violent. Yes it is fairly violent. If your child gets freaked out easily then don't ask them to watch it. They will most likely get freaked out by the joker. The joker does some pretty violent things in the movie but they aren't scary. I would say the creepiest thing the joker does is he grabs people by the face and puts a knife by their cheek and says something about how he hated his father. At one point he does stab the knife in a persons mouth. The camera angle points to another person and then it going back to joker and the image shows the person he stabbed falling to the ground, no blood shown. My point is parents make this sound like it should be rated R but it's not that bad. In my opinion a mature 12 maybe 11 year old should watch this. By the time they are 13 I would REALLY recommend the watching this movie.