>Leto is part gangster and part clown, but he’s not really part of this movie. Ayer never finds anything for the character to do, and so Leto’s role is reduced to a glorified cameo, a prelude to a more significant performance in a future installment.
>—David Ehrlich, Indiewire
>the Joker just sort of wanders in and out.
>—Robbie Collin, the Telegraph
>There’s little reason for the Joker to exist in the story other than as a bothersome complication to the largely-empty goals of the titular team.
>—Rodrigo Perez, the Playlist
>the character barely has anything to do.
>—Peter Debruge, Variety
>Leto’s Joker is barely in the damn movie, and when he is, he’s entirely underwhelming.
>—Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair
> Leto's crazy-gangster version of the Joker is all intensity and no flavor.
>—Tasha Robinson, The Verge
>Given all the press Leto has done for this movie — the guy shaved his eyebrows for the role, for crying out loud! — his extended cameo may come as a disappointment.
>—Mara Reinstein, US Magazine
>He’s a gargoyle, almost ornamental, popping in and out of the story from time to time, contributing little more than maniacal laughter and a demented smile. In a movie full of villainous characters, he does not stand out.
>—Soren Andersen, Seattle Times
>After months of online hype that threatened to bring the internet to its knees, Jared Leto’s Joker (while somewhat creepy and menacing) doesn’t come close to scraping the surface of the memorably spine-chilling work done by Heath Ledger in “The Dark Knight.”
>—Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun Times
>a glorified walk-on
>—Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
>his Joker doesn’t threaten the big-screen hold on the public imagination that Jack Nicholson and then Heath Ledger established.
>Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter
