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I purposely avoided anything talking about joker 2 before going to see it as someone who thoroughly enjoyed the first movie even with the fact that it's basically just a really well-made copy of taxi driver.

Like many I was surprised a big budget modern movie could actually make me feel something and it's no surprise joker 1 made 1 billion at the box offfice and we widely regarded amongst everyday movie goers as great and scored well with fans myself included.

It felt like a real movie in a see of marvel schlock.

Todd Phillips doesn't like that we sympathized with Arthur's plite and thinks we all got the wrong idea and wants to make this film just to show you his pure distane at you personally for not seeing Arthur the way HE wants you to because we're all so dumb and he's infinitely smarter than all of us.

So what do we get with this film? It's a deconstruction of the first film, with meta elements similar to the matrix 4, if you loved that movie then this is for you and you alone, for everyone else you will hate this film, it's trying so hard to stick a middle finger up at you as revenge for you not enjoying joker 1 the way todd wanted you to and for daring to have your own opinions and to think for yourself and see Arthur Fleck like Todd wanted you to, a sad and pathetic loser who was worth nothing and committed horrible atrocities (in his view) who deserved no sympathy, after the fact (once the movie released and was a massive success)

The movie is a beautiful train wreck, it looks visually stunning and is well shot and the technical aspects are pretty much 10/10 but is made purely as an F U to all those who loved the first. It a musical with terrible original songs that are spectical only and don't make you feel anything, south park did it better 23 years ago. The story is paper thin and gave away the ending with the trailer, typical Hollywood.

People say the ending is controversial but it's not really once you know how Todd felt after the success of the first. Todd makes sure it's painfully obvious he's giving you the complete opposite of what a fan would want from this movie and the ending is just the nails in the coffin.

At many points the ending included you think you're going to finally get some satisfaction and get what you came to see but no, the film is just subverting expections the movie. The ending is absolutely horrendous and literally ra**es the predecessor, I would of honestly preferred Arthur hit his head and woke up from a dream to then have the credits roll.

If you're a fan of the first avoid like the plague this is honestly one of the worst sequels ever made.

I hope it bombs and Todd Phillips's reputation never recovers.

He did a hangover 3 again, I hope he never makes another movie.

This film had me for I'd say maybe 30 minutes but it slowly just went downhill around the time of the first kill. I was holding out for this to turn out like a "you're next" kinda film when the protagonist gets pushed to her limits untill she fights back but everyone just meanders around until the ending.

The writing is what really killed the film for me, it's not funny, scary, tence ect it's just meh. It just got boring and then it ended with an unsatisfactory climax that was supposed to make you laugh? I think after the first kill this really should of been a typical horror slasher type film, hunger games in a mansion, everyone against the protagonist type deal with decent kills/gore but what you get just kinda ends up being pretty unsatisfying. I also don't know why everyone keeps saying this film is gorey, it's pretty tame for being in the horror genre. I was actually surprised it's rated 18 in the uk. After I while I just clocked out, there were no thrills, no scares, no tension, no horror and it certainly wasn't funny, the film just lost me after a while. It's on disney plus in 4k so it looked nice, the sets were nice, the actors were trying but they didn't have much to work with, the main leading lady was actually decent, shame it she was wasted on this, hence the 2* but the film just felt like a netflix movie you give a try because it sounds good and then it amounts to little. I wasn't expecting much from this but it still disappointed, I'm gonna go watch You're Next to cleanse the pallet.

To start I liked the idea of the film but after sitting down and actually watching it after about 15 minutes I could feel myself falling asleep. I like nick cage, even some of his so bad they are good movies but this was a borefest, not funny, cringy and unengaging. It felt like a cheap made for TV movie. I found the movie bad in almost every aspect, cage and pascal did their best but they had nothing to work with, the script should of never been funded, every 5 minutes I just kept being reminded that I was watching a bad movie and was just forever waiting for anything of substance to happen. The only slightly funny scene was when cage and pascal do LSD that was mildly entertaining and pulled an all be it short lasting smile out of me. Just watch one of cage's classics instead of this like con air or face off. This film just felt like a waste of time sadly, I honestly struggled to finish it and by the time I did I'd just wished I'd watched something else, lots of wasted potential with this one unfortunately.