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Perhaps bias, perhaps not, but what a movie. I haven't seen many movies from Joaquin Phoenix apart from Gladiator, so not knowledgeable about his abilities as an actor. But I am pretty sure after seeing this performance that he ranks amongst the best at this time.

I was a huge fan of Heath Ledger in the last great Joker appearance (lets forget the Suicide Squad) in Dark Knight, but I'm considering this to be even better. Better because Joaquin and director Philips, never attempted to emulate that Joker, but installed a completely new version of him. A man driven to madness. The expression on Joaquin's face is so intensive and plain scary.

The cinematography, the fitting music, the original Joker theme, gotta gotta give Todd the kudos, Oscar worthy at least. As I understand it, he was as amazed at Joaquin's performance as most of the movie loving audience.

The last 30 minutes of the film were exceptional. Multiple violent scenes, leading up to his appearance on De Niro's tv show (great acting here as well on De Niro's part), the shocking finale, the rise of the Joker as anti hero and the last scene which will be debated until the next instalment of the Joker (2).

Dear movie lovers, if you can handle violence, if you can appreciate great acting and love musical scores, see this movie on the big screen while you still can. you won't regret it.

The movie is average. Rating it a 1 or 2 is rediculous. Difficult to follow right after a movie like End Game. I think expectations are now a bit too high on all Marvel films. I did love the soundtrack, but wasn't backed by a good story line. Some nice action also.

I think season 1 and 2 were outstanding. Most exciting stuff to hit television in a long time. Season 3 I thought was disappointing and wasn't contemplating watching season 4. I did however because I was told it was back up to par with the first two. And I wasn't disappointed. Great drama, unexpected twists and turns, great new cast members (Suraj Sharma - Life of Pi, The elegant Pakistani intelligence commander Raza Jaffrey and what to think of the great find of Numan Acar as USA arch enemy - Haissam Haqqani). But like most honest reviewers and fans of the show, I thought the ending was a disaster. Nothing of any interest happened. No climax, just a sorry aftermath of the preceding episodes. I would give good money to hear the writers explain why they let this great season go out like a slow burning candle. I'm lost.