the IRISHMAN (2019)

[RCMerchant]

I was hyped for this! DeNiro, Joe Peschi, and Al Pacino? How can this not be good?
This is how. 3 and a half hours of 70+ year old men trying to play 30 year old men doesn't work.
And the music...ugh. Didn't I hear all that s**t in CASINO?
Bad.  
Though watching Al Pacino about to bust a vein in his head from screaming is always a plus.

[Gabriel Knight]

Scorses doing more mafia movies, yay that's a new one. That guy has a serious fetish complex.

[ER]

I was hyped for this! DeNiro, Joe Peschi, and Al Pacino? How can this not be good?
This is how. 3 and a half hours of 70+ year old men trying to play 30 year old men doesn't work.
And the music...ugh. Didn't I hear all that s**t in CASINO?
Bad.  
Though watching Al Pacino about to bust a vein in his head from screaming is always a plus.

Agree 150%!

[Neville]

I sort of enjoyed it. It's not "Goodfellas" nor does it try it to be. Sure, the critics should refrain their enthusiasm before a film if they feel it's not for everyone. And I do agree that Pacino is a hack.

What most people don't seem to get is that it's a very different animal than the rest of Scorsese's mafia films. Here the main characters are either dead or about to die. It wouldn't make sense to remember their lifes with the same juvenile enthusiasm as in "Wolf of Wall Street", or in the same epic scope of "Casino". The stale, overboiled style of the film is a deliberate artistic choice by Scorsese.

It reminds me more of "Once upon a time in America" than of "Goodfellas".

[RCMerchant]

I dunno...seems like Scorsese riding his own worn out coat tails.

[The Burgomaster]

I liked it. It doesn't hold up to Goodfellas, Mean Streets or Casino, but it's still a good movie. Scorsese probably makes gangster movies because he grew up in neighborhoods where wiseguys lived. The common perception is that he keeps making only gangster movies, but if you look at his filmography you'll see that isn't true at all. He's made more non-gangster movies than gangster movies: THE KING OF COMEDY, THE AVIATOR, KUNDUN, THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST, ALICE DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE, THE AGE OF INNOCENCE . . .