Greatly anticipated but totally disappointing

Rating: 3/10 (20 December 2019)

I'm a huge fan of Scorcese, DeNiro, Pacino, etc. but was disappointed in this collaboration.
This story of how Jimmy Hoffa intrigued me since I was a kid and I believe out of all the theories of how Hoffa died, this is the most believable. I dont necessarily agree that the movie went too long but there were way too many 1-scene characters that only muddied the flow of the story. But it was still a good storyline.
The acting on the other hand was my biggest disappointment. First, they should have played this like GF2, with younger actors portraying the older. As good as DeNiro can be, he was not believable as a young man, just watch him throw a handgun let alone a punch. Pacino was just okay, but I thought Pesci and Harvey Kaitel were very good and was pleasantly surprised at Ray Romano's acting. Most of the supporter characters had either poor lines or bad direction.
The scene where JFK died was a stereotypical scene, but totally unbelievable since the people watching the television newscasts were truly pissed at the Kennedy family for letting them down after the election. Should have been written differently to be believable. That was just a simple example of the writing being poor but the directing was not much better.
Hopefully this isn't Scorsese's swan song.