A last hurrah before the end.

Rating: 7/10 (28 November 2019)

This doesn't give you the rush after you've seen Casino or Goodfellas for the first time. It is made in that style, with narrations etc. while not bad, this is more like a farewell movie to Hollywood by Scorsese, Pacino, De Niro, and Pesci. It's kinda like Scorsese saying to the audiences this is my last gangster film, goodbye. Scorsese always wanted to work with Pacino and he finally got his time.
If you compare the acting between Pacino and De Niro, it's not like comparing their acting in Heat, where people still argue till this day who gave the better performance. In this film De Niro acts as the underlining/hitman to Pacino's Hoffa. So by default, since Pacino is the boss, he gives a more powerful performance. De Niro is his underling so his performance is more timid. But I think this movie will get the following Oscar Noms:
Best Movie
Best Director
Best Actor: Both Pacino and De Niro
Best Supporting Actor: Pesci
Best original or adapted screenplay
Now as far as the movie goes, I'm glad I didn't waste $25 to go see it in some art house theater in Dallas. I thought I was missing a major motion picture event. And it turns out that I didn't. Realistically, it's just an ok movie. However the competition this year is very flat so it might win all the Oscars mentioned above.
The only bad thing that I'll say about this movie, is that Robert De Niro's deep fake was horrible. It's a CGI mess and shouldn't have been done. Hair, makeup, and the prosthetics department could've made a better young De Niro. Facial prosthetics are good enough these days to make an actor look young. Thankfully the deep fake version of young De Niro was only in the first one hour, so the next two and a half hours it was back to a normal looking De Niro. Pacino used deep fake for one scene. It was the scene in which Hoffa talks to Frank for the first time over the phone, and you can clearly see that Pacino's upper lip does not move at all, and it looks weird. I mean the deep fake/CGI was "Mars needs Moms" level bad. I don't think Pesci used deep fake technology at all and it worked out for him positively. I hope this movie is a warning to other directors never to use deep fake technology to make actors look young.
So as a necessity watch this Scorsese movie, but watch Casino and Goodfellas right after you finish this movie.