It was good, but I wish I liked it way more than I did
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I don't even have much to say really. It was..long! Sometimes a little hard to follow (lots of names). It didn't feel super cohesive to me in a way I guess? I dunno why
I wish it was more traditional Scorcese. Gimme some GIMME SHELTER! Gimme some MOB HIT MONTAGES!
Kinda wish it wasn't based on a true story so he could've just done whatever he wanted with it. Prominent characters just fell into the background and someone would say oh that guy yea he's dead now
Favorite part was "Well liked by everyone - died of natural causes". That cracked me up
Three leads were better than they've been in many years as expected but I wanted MOOOORE. Gimme some powerhouse moments from De Niro or Pacino or Pesci, I've had ENOUGH of the quiet reflective work here!! At least make the subtle performances even somewhat emotional. Pacino did more with just his eyes in that great 15 second moment at the end of Heat than he did throughout this whole movie :(
I dunno, I'm left a lil disappointed obviously. I'm sure I'd like it more on rewatch but I know I won't be tackling that 3.5 hours again any year soon
Still a 7/10 but still sits towards the bottom of my Scorcese list
so this was fine. Definitely felt its length at times and for a 3.5 hour movie called "The Irishman" I sure feel like I don't know the character as much as I oughta, but it had enough great scenes throughout that it was still a solid watch. Certainly a LESSER Scorsese though
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I think more than anything it was great to see Pesci back, I think he was my favorite part of this. He's so good at portraying that...subtle menace. No one can do it quite like him
Pacino was great too, nice seeing him in a meaty role again for once. Felt so bad for him at the end :( FUCK Frank!
I haven't been CRAZY about De Niro's acting in like...this whole century (Silver Linings Playbook included) and this didn't really change that tbh. I mean, he was fine, but I feel like he got outshone by quite a bit by the former two. Maybe part of that was the contacts, GOD why did they have to give him those. Who CARES if his eyes are blue if it's gonna be that distracting?? It wasn't quite as bad as Depp in Black Mass but I still wish they wouldn't have bothered. I thought it was the de-aging that was distracting me at first but everyone else looked fine
SPEAKING of de-aging though, the one criticism I'd have about it is the scenes that required physicality (like the cornerstore hand-stomping) you could totally tell it was old man De Niro lumbering about. Honestly, I think I would've preferred it with a different actor, even if those scenes were pretty limited. Worked out p well for Godfather II!
IN THE END it kinda felt like more of a victory lap for the main actors/Scorsese, which didn't make for a bad movie, it just could've been BETTER. Looking forward to Scorsese getting back with DiCaprio after this
I really enjoyed this flick. I’m don’t with deaging effects though. That fight scene was hysterically bad since the 80 year old had old man shakes and couldn’t really crumb stomp that dude even though he was supposed to be in his 30s
The prompts of who was who and how the died was always funny. And I agree with Curtis as the one that was liked gave me a chuckle.
I did feel bad for him how his daughters wanted nothing to do with him as he was dying. But at least he came to peace with his mistakes and understood why.
Good watch but that run time was definitely not a quick 3 flick
