Filmmaker Paul Schrader has shared his unfiltered thoughts about Joker: Folie À Deux and, well, let's just say he doesn't love Todd Phillips' sequel.

Taxi Driver writer Paul Schrader has decided to weigh in on Joker: Folie à Deux, admitting that he was unable to make it through the DC sequel. He also has nothing nice to say about the movie's leads.

Todd Phillips' sequel to his 2019 vigilante extravaganza, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga, has so little energy that it sags off the screen.

Todd Phillips has followed his very anti-hero take on the Joker with a very anti-sequel follow-up. “Joker: Folie à Deux" combines prison drama, courthouse thriller and musical, and yet turns out remarkably inert given how combustible the original was,

Joker 2,' starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga, fails to rise to the box office standards set by its Oscar-winning predecessor.

Folie à Deux, to say the least, opting to leave the theater to buy something instead of screening the film in its entirety. During a new sit-down conversation with Jeremy O. Harris for Interview Magazine,

That was enough,” Schrader said. “It’s a really bad musical.” It’s certainly a surprise to hear Schrader’s assessment, considering he didn’t even get to the tap dancing sequence wherein director Todd Phillips forgot to film Phoenix’s feet.