Saw clips of this when it came out, so avoided it til now because I knew it was gonna be kinda bad Now decided to watch it as part of a movie marathon to get through all three

While ledger himself was a good actor and took his roles seriously, this incarnation of joker is second to worst, just above phoenix joker This take brought in all the negative dark parts of the joker character without the lighter side to balance it out, ledgers joker lacked the vibrance the canonical character posseses, and comes across more like a political anarchist, just out to push a narrative without the punchlines to it.