why didn't you use younger actors to portray them in their youth?

Rating: 7/10 (19 December 2019)

OK , so you'd have to pay them more than it cost you to do the CGI but it would have given some younger actors a break and we wouldn't have had to suffer through the "avatar" type cartoon scenes.
I don't know how Scorsese was convinced that this was the best route to go because he must have been given samplers at the outset.
The real weakness in this technology is that it only really alters the faces and it is very obvious in parts of the action that there's creaking old bones underneath a young visage.
When DeNiro is beating up a shopowner it looks like an outtake from the old people's home, you half expect him to fall over after the effort. In many other situations it looks like the old age walkers have been edited out .
But if you can get past these shortcomings it's not too bad of a movie. Any time you've got the Mob and the Irish involved in fighting with Unions and Politicians then you've got me interested.
It's a great portrayal of the Union thuggery and bullying, contrasted against the Mob's respect for hierarchy. Both of them of course find it easy to get politicians in their pockets and both of them too have no hesitation in getting rid of the ones that go rogue on them.
What is missing is the raw energy of headstrong youth and power that we saw in the Godfather series.
The menace is still there but it somehow seems old hat in these days of billionaires, oligarchs, tax havens and global corruption.
Some of those guys in countries like Malaysia, The Ukraine and uncountable African crapholes make more in a day than the entire crime system in the USA makes in a year.
Fun to watch though, you have to break it up into a couple or three viewings as it's a very very long movie.