The trial and the romance are the linchpins of this seemingly endless movie. There are bits—such as Joker’s impersonation of a drawling Southern lawyer—that might have been entertaining had they not been positioned in what seems to be the movie’s eighth or ninth hour. In the end, the wafer-thin story amounts to the same nihilistic slop that Phillips served up in the first “Joker,” albeit remixed, genre-wise.