Review the movie for what it is, not for what it's not

Rating: 10/10 (4 December 2019)

A very common thing that many people do when they review a movie is doing so based too much on what they were expecting. And I understand, everyone had high expectations for this film, and it's normal to be disappointed, but that's not necessarily the movie's fault.
Many people disliked The Irishman because they were expecting to see another Goodfellas. I mean, if you want to see something like Goodfellas so bad, then go and watch Goodfellas. Don't blame The Irishman for not being something that it's not trying to accomplish.
As you may guess, I thought this movie was great. I sit throughout the shortest three and a half hours of my life, and I was so impressed that I had to watch it again the very next day. Robert De Niro and Al Pacino are finally acting for real again, and Joe Pesci makes a great comeback with his greatest performance since, well, Goodfellas.
The only thing that I didn't find so marvelous was the CGI used to make the protagonists look younger; at times, it can be very distracting, specially seeing that the characters at a certain age move and talk like older people. However, this didn't ruin my experience at all.
I think that what makes Scorsese so great it's that, despite his age and his long career as a filmmaker, he's still making movies as good as the ones he made 30 or 40 years ago (can't say the same about Steven Spielberg, Brian De Palma, Ridley Scott or other directors that were once great), and I'm sure that he is not going to stop very soon.
After Parasite, The Irishman is by far my second favorite film in a year that has been great for cinema, and I can't encourage you enough to watch it, as long as you know what you're going for.