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Batman: The Killing Joke

Batman: The Killing Joke

6.6/ 10

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2016

Release Year

77 min

Runtime

Animation
Action
Crime
Drama

Overview

As Batman hunts for the escaped Joker, the Clown Prince of Crime attacks the Gordon family to prove a diabolical point mirroring his own fall into madness.

Keywords

psychopath
superhero
cartoon
carnival
descent into madness
torture
cruelty
justice
based on graphic novel
super power
madness
adult animation
duringcreditsstinger
aggressive
bewildered
gloomy

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Reviews(5)

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Austin Singleton

@hweird1

August 10, 2016

Not even the voice acting could save this movie. Check out my full review here. http://www.hweird1reviews.com/allreviews/the-killing-joke-movie-review

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Gimly

@Ruuz

September 2, 2016

5
5/10

Shares the few weaknesses of the short comic it is based on, but adds a bunch of its own new weaknesses to try and get it up to a theatrical runtime and justify its cinema release. I think part of the reason the reception for _The Killing Joke_ has been so overwhelmingly negative is that the expe

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Peter89Spencer

August 7, 2020

4
4/10

The first 30 minutes was wasted with Barbara being so annoying! I just didn't see why that whole bit was thrown in when the movie itself is meant to center on the Joker. Even with Mark Hamill's final bow out as the iconic villain couldn't save the film. Still, at least that joke at the end was a

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GenerationofSwine

GenerationofSwine

January 12, 2023

10
10/10

OK, so I'll admit I was expecting something closer to the graphic novel, and I was pretty disappointed that it only really loosely followed something that was epicly brilliant as the comic. However, I'm not a stickler for total accuracy. And, really it is better than most of the other Batman m

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Murp

Murp

May 29, 2024

5
5/10

_The Killing Joke_ deserved a better adaptation. Not even that. Just re-edit this to cut out the first half and you have a perfect adaptation. This is one of my favorite Batman stories ever. Unfortunately, the first part is spent irrelevantly on Barbara, and has largely nothing to do with the rest o

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