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Join Date: May 2007
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Scorcese's "Irishman"
Saw it last night at a theatre preview. (It's gonna be on Netflix later this month)
A really good (albeit really long) movie. I don't know how much of the real story of the demise of Jimmy Hoffa is known, but this feels like someone knew quite a bit about the case. DeNiro and Pesci are great together again. Both of them are probably too old for this ****, but the CGI works to a good enough degree to make it more or less believable. (However, the scene where Pesci's character helps DeNiro's character fix his truck will make anyone with a scintilla of knowledge about cars groan out loud.)
Ray Romano (!) does a fantastic job as the mob lawyer.
The biggest flaw to me is the casting of Al Pacino as Jimmy Hoffa. I wish the director had tried harder to cast this role. I kept thinking of Jack Nicholson in the same role, and I wish that there had been someone else with similar gravitas to make me forget that I was watching a movie instead of Pacino's schtick.
All in all a pretty good addition the the Scorcese legacy. Not his best, and maybe trading on past successes, but the guy still knows how to film a story about mob guys.
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