Just because Scorsese is a legend doesn't mean we have to lie to ourselves that this was good cinema

Rating: 2/10 (12 December 2019)

The film is a useless recreation of Goodfellas. A story told with all the Scorsese bits that goes absolutely no where... except to the grave it builds for itself.
Sure, I can appreciate Marty as the auteur he is but this movie makes no points and that doesn't happen without a ton of effort. We are given the voice-over narration much like Ray Liotta did but this movie never pops and cracks with anything resembling that same excitement. I'd like to thank this movie for teaching me that powerful mobsters are forgotten like every other person who never did anything good for society. Just a really memorable lesson that it appears from the reaction, people actually needed to hear?
The ending: I've always liked the ending to Goodfellas, it is ambiguous enough to let the audience wonder what type of life Henry hill was now going to lead but I guess Scorsese thought he did a bad job? Here we are treated to an hour of geriatric care that felt all too familiar to perhaps what is happening to Scorsese in real life... The only difference is he actually has amazing movies to uphold his legacy rather than this character of a glorified hit man who never connected on any level with his family and therefore will die very alone ( wow! What a poetic and imaginative ending for a movie about a killer).
The set up: early on it felt like we were in for some chapters of a story told outside of a timeline. Obituaries creep above people as they are introduced to the screen but by the end of the 3.5 hours who the hell remembered or cared to remember what any of them said.. there ends up being no reason at all to provide this gimmick in the movie since we aren't even introduced to these characters let alone tie the story back into all the ways and reasons these auxiliary characters died.
Ultimately this reminded of a children's book that was being read to me so I could fall asleep. There is nothing creative or exciting about anything in this. The screenplay (see above reference to a children's book) is tired and used as self reflection of the most immature of minds. A bad bio pic that doesn't know what it's story should be . A so called "family man" who only does his murders for the benefit of his family? But he leaves his wife and is upset that his daughter doesn't speak to him anymore? I'm sorry I wasn't able to feel bad for a murderer , how meta critic and the users of this site are giving this a rating in the 8s is just beyond me and has seriously made me reconsider ever reading a review of a movie again. I hope you enjoyed this one