good acting but.....ehm

Rating: 4/10 (30 November 2019)

I Love mafia/crime movies, especially ones 'based' on true life events (whatever that may mean)..
Even though I love the two big names - DeNiro and Pacino- their acting seems to be a bit.....stagnant, stuck in repetitive mode for the last 10 15 years...
Don't get me wrong...they can act like masters....but it is all the same and this movie seems to be another goodfellas, although not that good....
Their facial expressions - DeNiro's sullen mouth down look and Pacinos wide opening eyes as in 'surprise!'- still remain the same after all these years..
To me this doesn't feel like a super performance, they just play everyday characters...the thing is...they both play normal people...acting like normal people...and maybe playing a mob guy is the easiest thing to do,..,
Pesci puts down a great performance...better than DeNiro and Pacino i would readily say....his anger is subdued but palpable....and it shows
all in all the Big names in this movie (two of them) underperform or at least rehash years gone past and applied a quick 'do-over' so as to please the audience with another 'dazzling' performance....for me it doesn't work.
Both DeNiro and Pacino have been thrown a bone by Scorsese in a bid to rejuvenate an already over the top duo to try and market them in a movie which has been told countless times....mafia again...and again.
the true praise should go to Scorsese for actually taking this leap of faith and stick his name onto it....but with names like DeNiro and Pacino both the director and the studio knew they had a winner...
and that's sad for cinema...and sad for movie lovers alike...
because it shows once more the audience is an extrapolated data pool which suggests actors over movie quality...and in the end...that is what kills quality