21 Grams vs Joker
Joker has the higher audience score (8.1/10 against 7.3/10 for 21 Grams). Joker is the shorter watch at 2h 2m compared with 2h 4m. 21 Grams is the older of the two (2003 against 2019). Both are crime, drama, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.
21 Grams
Joker| 21 Grams | Joker | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.3/10 | ★ 8.1/10 |
| Year | 2003 | 2019 |
| Length | 2h 4m | 2h 2m |
| Genres | Crime, Drama, Thriller | Crime, Drama, Thriller |
| Country | – | Canada |
| Director | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Todd Phillips |
| Main cast | Eddie Marsan, Benicio del Toro, Clea DuVall, Danny Huston, Sean Penn | Shea Whigham, Bill Camp, Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy, Robert De Niro |
Synopsis
21 Grams
Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife and mother of two girls; and Jack Jordan, a born-again ex-con, are brought together by a terrible accident that changes their lives.
Joker
During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.