Too long it's a Television Drama nota movie

Rating: 7/10 (17 December 2019)

My Review- The Irishman

It's very difficult to review a movie when it's been removed from Cinema release and goes straight to Netflix streaming.
The very limited Cinema release is purely so Netflix can qualify the movie for Oscar consideration and effectively denies the movie going public from seeing it until its released on television
This movie to my mind is far too long for any movie it's over 3 and a half hours and probably would make a great mini series but as a movie I got tired of the repetitive foul language and violence same old same old hit man crime and violence.
While I admired the performances of Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino I've seen this plot scenario many times before . The Power play by gangs and gang bosses resulting in corruption and violence .
This one is the reminiscences of an old man Robert DeNiro retelling his "glory" days as a Teamster hitman assassin and his association with the notorious gangster Jimmy Hoffa told from his wheel chair in an aged care home.
We get introduced to these criminals and gangsters with captions on their ultimate fate either prison or gunned down and murdered.
Trouble is Al Pacino is now 79 and the flash backs to his teamster days as much as makeup can give the illusion of youth Al still looks too old to play a man probably in his early 50's
We meet many tough and savage teamsters and the slow pace of this film just made me lose interest , perhaps it may seem more dramatic on a huge screen but Netflix have made sure we only get s limited cinema release.
As much as I'm an admirer of Martin Scorsese films and Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino this is certainly no Godfather Part 2
If this is the future of Cinema Im not happy
If it's a film worth seeing Netflix should slow a normal release time there is a huge difference in a Television Show be it the best quality production but 3.5 hours is a mini series in my opinion.
There's lots of Oscar talk about The Irishman but like Roma last year I don't think it should be considered as it's a Netflix TV drama ðŸŽ­