Joker

[Drunk Monk]

This made me rethink comic book movies entirely.  A tour de force for Phoenix, an actor that I often find overrated but he earns his reputation for shadowy characters in...well not spades, in jokers.  It's a fresh original vision for comic-based films, not the Mindless-Candy-Universe, but a journey into madness and chaos with echoes of Taxi Driver, accentuated by Deniro's appearance.  It turns one of the most iconic comic villains sideways, with nods to the archetypal municipality of Gotham, and sly comments on the hellish society that is our real world now.  Many complain that the DCEC is too dark.  This is the darkest yet.  I found it imperfect yet engrossing.  

No swordfights.  Still DOOM recommended.