ManiakJiggy This is How Movies Should Be Made

TaryBiggBall It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

Abegail Noëlle While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Staci Frederick Blistering performances.

Matt Greene I'm a fan of the book, and about half of this is an exact copy of it. However, the tacked-on prologue with the weird, borderline-statutory bat-sex? No thanks.

destinylives52 Based on the one-shot comic book of the same title from the late 1980s, "Batman: The Killing Joke" is a disturbing story that deals with four main issues: Joker's vicious assault on Batgirl; Batman's uneasy alliance/relationship with Batgirl; Joker's origin story; and Batman's perverse affinity for The Joker.After an unnecessarily lengthy intro of Batgirl's/Batman's relationship which doesn't truly mesh with the second and third acts (said intro not part of the comic book, as far as I can remember), "Killing Joke" gets to the meat of the story, when The Joker attacks Batgirl and kidnaps her father, who is Police Commissioner Gordon. Batman goes on a rampage, going after every criminal he comes upon to get evidence of where The Joker is. But when Batman finally finds The Joker, will it be too late? Will The Joker bring out the madness in Commissioner Gordon? Will Batman finally succumb to his own rage and kill The Joker?My most memorable, movie moment of "Batman: The Killing Joke" is **SPOILER ALERT** the scene when Batgirl, not in costume, opens her apt. door expecting a friend and instead sees The Joker pointing a gun to her stomach.Fans of the source material — I'm one — will most likely not find this adaptation as satisfying as the original. The comic was less than 48 pages if my memory serves me correctly, and in those few pages it packed one hell of a story that was well-paced and intense. This movie, by expanding a short story into near-feature length, adds scenes and sequences that slow the movie down. Yes, the extra stuff adds backstory which yields greater understanding of the main characters; but the pacing and high intensity are sacrificed.Although far from being great, "Batman: The Killing Joke" is a good movie; and Mark Hamill's performance as The Joker is outstanding, as usual.Mannysmemorablemoviemoments

ragpap93 Batman and Batgirl doing the nasty. Remember in Batman Beyond Barbara admits to Terry Mcginnis that she dated Batman (Bruce Wayne). Then she quit as Batgirl. This movie delved into that idea. Well a third of the movie was dedicated to that before they actually dove into the killing joke which apparently was taken frame for frame from the comic book of the same name. I did not read it or any batman comic at all but maybe that is why there is a big difference in peoples opinions. It is between those who read the comic and those who did not. The first third has no tie in with the rest of the film except for showing the end of everything. With Robin gone the only other partner of Batman left was Batgirl. Also the villain they were taking on gets obsessed with Batgirl just like the Joker with Batman. After some time passes Joker escapes from the asylum. Flashbacks showing how Joker got into crime emerges right about now i.e. Joker origins. All that while Joker shoots Batgirl, crippling her in the process and kidnaps officer Gordon apparently trying to prove a point. What follows is a musical number by the Joker. The hood worn by the red hood was really constricting how did he think he was going to manage with it? We get what we wanted anyway the origins of Joker. The best part of the movie is undeniably the ending. The Joker made a valid point and Batman provides a counter point. This was an ultimatum but Batman says that it does not have to be this way and even offers to help the Joker. The Joker then tells the killing joke and what Batman does while laughing is open for interpretation as it ended ambiguously. This conversation showed depth in both characters. We then cut to Barbara during the credits and with her actions here perhaps there is a continuation of this story in the future

peefyn I do not understand how someone can justify giving this movie a theatrical release. It is more like a couple of episodes from a Saturday morning cartoon than it is a movie.It starts with a hardly related subplot that serves little purpose but to weaken Batgirl as a character and show us that Batman is Batman. It is almost like those movie releases on VHS where they obviously just put some episodes from a show together to form a movie.Once the story with the joker begins, the movie gets a bit better, at least partly due to Hamill's performance. There are some interesting moments, but even this part of the film feels like a low budget replacement. And the visual style does not fit the story at all. It's like they read the source material and decided to make a 90s animated show about it, only less pretty.