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5. The Ugly: The Friggin’ Joker

This performance should be embarrassing to everyone. The actors, the director, the studio, everyone who has ever written the character, everyone. But not because of Jared Leto’s BS method acting, not because his behavior towards the cast makes him an actual serial harasser, not EVEN because his physical appearance in the movie is laughable, but because he is boring in this movie.

Seriously, I went in expecting to laugh at his terrible performance based on the trailers, but he was just nothing. Heath Ledger did something interesting and different with the role, Mark Hamill brought the comic book character to life like no one else, Leto just… sort of exists on screen.

It’s only when he tries to act “edgy” that he transcends boring and becomes actually embarrassing. Honestly, not as bad as Jessie Eisenberg’s Lex Luthor, but still really, really bad. It is legitimately impressive to be able to take two of the most interesting villains of all time and screw both of them up. Yeah, Leto LOOKS stupid. Yeah, he treated the cast unforgivably. Yeah, his Joker voice is cringe-worthy. But under all that, he’s just boring. Maybe he’d be worse if they hadn’t cut most of his scenes out for being atrocious.

Hey directors, THIS is why you rein in your actors when they start to go off the rails.