Incredible Craft with a Poor Pace

Rating: 7/10 (29 November 2019)

Turning on this picture my attention was all on the screen, but as the film progressed I suddenly found that my eyes were more focussed on my cellphone just counting the minutes till this movie would end. So after my first viewing I came to the conclusion that it was not the film that was the problem, it had to be me so I decided to watch the film again without my phone in my pocket. Without distraction I still had wondering eyes meaning that it in fact wasn't me.
So before I jump into the bad I will start with the good. Every set had immense detail, it was not quite the on location type of pictures that we have grown to expect from Martin Scorsese. Another great aspect to the film would be the score that he uses, he has always been an expert when it comes to his use of music and this movie is no exception. I think that one aspect of the story that I did enjoy was the way they incorporated the political climate of the time showing how corrupt all politicians were and have always been.
Now on to the Bad. Acting... with such an incredible lineup of great actors it just seemed like they were going through the motions. The one exception to this movie would be the performance of Joe Pesci who played a very reserved character that we don't often see from him. Another poor aspect from the film would be the story itself, not only is it unbearably long there are many scenes that aren't important to the plot. This not only creates some problems but with the editing style that they chose to employ had a terrible pace. This for me was the absolute worst part of the movie, there were cuts where there should have been pauses and pauses where there should have been cuts.
It is for those reasons that I am only giving this movie a 7/10, I also just want to add that it just didn't have the Martin Scorsese vibe that we as fans were craving when this movie was announced. I personally was very upset after watching this film and writing this review really upsets me but I am going to overhype a movie just because of the director.