You shouldn't compare it to Goodfellas or Casino.

Rating: 10/10 (30 November 2019)

The whole time watching The Irishman, from the beginning when the camera pans to De Niro's character and he starts to tell his story, I wondered who he was talking to. I thought maybe just the viewing audience. That was until the end, when he refused to tell the priest his sins. It wasn't until after this that,I realized, the entire story was his, in fact, confession to God. He's never seen telling the story to another living person, just the only being that it mattered to.
This changed the whole perspective of the movie for me.
Yes, it has the same style, music and cinematography of all the other Scorsese classics. But, this one I believe deals more with the mob from a point of view from someone who hated the fact he was ever in it. Which is new.
It's long, but hey, so is life.