Good morning, good afternoon, good evening...whenever it is you have found this review. Today I am going to talk about the newly released Joker flick.
Overall this flick was AMAZING! While not a complete origin story, because as we all know there is no real origin story to Mr. J, it does a good job of giving a base story...a POSSIBLE origin for him. We have several others of course, the story from The Killing Joke, the one from the original Batman flick in 92 and others. They did a good job of mixing a lot of those.
And honestly aside from Ledger this is a perfect live-action Joker. This was a subdued Joker because he is just coming into his own. Like a preteen who has not figured out just who he is yet. You see him "age" and "come into his own" which is great.
The casting of Thomas Wayne and Murray Franklin was fantastic. Easily one of my favourite DeNiro's performances especially near the end.
I do not want to go into too much detail and spoil things but they throw a few curveballs and "possibilities" that I have not seen in Batman lore before.
I am honestly not sure what else to say about this. It is perfectly dark and light at the same time. However I have one complaint, they make Joker almost sympathetic. Without giving too much away what starts Arthurs turn into Joker is almost, ALMOST, not his fault. His reaction to the situation is, again, ALMOST normal. This is what made Heath Ledgers portrayal perfect because there was nothing redeeming or good about his Joker.
Also, I find it interesting that the director has said that this will not cross over into the DC Cinematic Universe. This is the first of DC's one-off movies. It will be interesting to see who else we see in this type of flick and if they do end up in the DCCU.
I am going to say that this is a 10/10 while IMDB has it at 9/10. I LOVED THIS FLICK and will be purchasing the Blu-Ray when it comes out!
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