POSITIVES…
It’s a mob story directed by Martin Scorsese. How’s that for a positive point in seeing this film?
Alright, how about the fact that it’s a very fascinating look behind the mob and the interesting characters that make up the crime family.
You can say that it’s like a Mob odyssey that has great world building and memorable characters. Definitely an experience.
There’s one particular conversation involving a wet seat and fish, that reminded me of what you might call a Pulp Fiction-esque type of scene. Entertaining.
Al Pacino steals this movie as Jimmy Hoffa. Talk about larger than life. A lot of the best scenes involved Pacino.
Joe Pesci is intimidating as heck here, and he’s amazing in his role as Russell Bufalino.
Robert De Niro as the Irishman himself; Frank Sheeran, is fantastic. There’s a lot of subtle dramatic acting on his part here, but you’ll feel for the guy.
Great supporting cast as well. The movie revolves primarily on the conversations and the dialogue, and it helps to have a stellar ensemble group of actors to bring all that to life here.
All three primary actors were given the fancy de-aging and it’s subtle and blends in enough to be more impressive, than distracting.
NEGATIVES…
It’s a really long movie at about three and a half hours long, and it feels like a three and a half hours long movie. It does not just zip by.
Slow paced. Purposefully slow burn of a narrative.
Hope you have that patience, because it doesn’t really get super interesting until at least around the one hour mark.
Despite the de-aging visual tech and all, Robert De Niro still did not look like somebody that one would describe “the Kid.”
Some plot threads are left dangling, and you might wish they weren’t.
It’s still generally a mob movie, so there are things you’ve seen before.
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