Joker: Folie à Deux” es la película número uno en la taquilla, pero podría no estar destinada a un final feliz.

As a pop culture touchstone, Joker was supposed to be a middle finger to the way things are, a 21st century super-villain variation on Falling Down, which told a similar story of a besieged everyman (played by Michael Douglas) who lashes out at the unfairness around him, first justifiably, then with inexcusable violence.

What the wafer-thin story amounts to in the end is the same nihilistic slop that Phillips served up in the first “Joker,” albeit remixed, genre-wise.