DISAPPOINTING OLD ACTORS

Rating: 4/10 (22 December 2019)

The Irishman had much to offer but it was let down by the choice of actors. Their age was a problem, despite "a custom three-camera rig and extensive digital de-aging visual effects (that) were used to make De Niro, Pacino, and Pesci appear younger in many of the film's flashbacks". De Niro's age was particularly on display; he looked like a jittery old man not the young man who's daughter he was standing up for.
This was less of an issue for Pacino and Pesci because their roles were different.
Quite apart from age, I find it difficult now to watch a De Niro on film without seeing his foul-mouthed, disgusting anti-Trump rants. De Niro was once a great actor, but is it time to put him out to pasture?