TheEvilTwin

Form 10/10, idea 10/10, originality 10/10, gore and body horror 9/10. Experience of the year. If the film had ended 20 minutes earlier without the drawn out finale, I would have gone for a full score. Intense.

Are they alright? Joker was the best film of the year in every way at the time, Joker: Folie à Deux is the biggest spit in the face of all audiences this year. Joaquin Phoenix is fine, but he just can't top his performance in the first film, Lady Gaga is so bland that if you don't count their ten musical numbers, it feels like she warmed up for all of 10 minutes on set and if anyone else, even a no-name aspiring actress, had been in her place, no one would know it. There’s zero build-up the trial is boring and about nothing, the whole first half is actually an incredibly infantile wait for "something" that for a while towards the second half looks like it's finally going to veer into murky waters, but then Todd Phillips throws another musical number. A disastrous experience, two hours of pure boredom and an ending pulled out of thin air. Anyone who loved the first movie should definitely give this one a miss, as they will not be be happy with how diametrically different this film is.

It’s amazing that when you look back at the "old Marvel movies", you can literally feel the drop in quality compared to the latest ones. Black Panther, unlike the newer additions, has fine characters with a proper background, a villain with believable motivations, top-notch fight choreography using CGI that you don’t have to be ashamed of, and, most importantly, a story that is simply enjoyable. A very fine return, and when I think back to the cinema screening of the sequel, I have to say that the Panther movies are good, and although it’s one of the more boring characters in the MCU, the lore around it far outweighs its colleagues.