Joker vs Mantrap
Joker has the higher audience score (8.1/10 against 5.6/10 for Mantrap). Mantrap is the shorter watch at 1h 13m compared with 2h 2m. Mantrap is the older of the two (1953 against 2019). Both are crime, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Joker
Mantrap| Joker | Mantrap | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.1/10 | ★ 5.6/10 |
| Year | 2019 | 1953 |
| Length | 2h 2m | 1h 13m |
| Genres | Crime, Drama, Thriller | Crime, Thriller |
| Country | Canada | – |
| Director | Todd Phillips | Terence Fisher |
| Main cast | Shea Whigham, Bill Camp, Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy, Robert De Niro | Anthony Forwood, Lois Maxwell, Paul Henreid, Kieron Moore, Hugh Sinclair |
Synopsis
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.
Mantrap
Branded as criminally insane and incarcerated for a murder he did not commit, Speight escapes from the asylum, determined to clear his name. He befriends private detective Hugo Bishop who, convinced that the wrong man has been convicted, agrees to help find the real killer. They begin their search for the murderer closest to home where both Thelma Speight and her employer Maurice Jerrard were visibly distressed by the news of her husband's…