Director – Todd Phillips; Credited Screenwriter – Todd Phillips & Scott Silver
Perfectly good, beautifuly shot, Phoenix is excellent but the film only half works, in two ways. As a supervillain origin it half works, as a Taxi Driver or King of Comedy homage it half works. A decent enough movie that has an excellent movie hiding somewhere inside it, if it were only willing to commit to one of those two poles over the other. The most shameless example of filmmakers invoking comic books to sell an seemingly utterly unrelated film so far.
Even Briefer, Please: A confident Sure, with hints of a shaky Yes – an exersise in homage that otherwise seems unsure as to what it was all about anyway.
Briefly, Please 