Painting Houses

Rating: 8/10 (16 December 2019)

After years of hearing about Martin Scorsese returning to the gangster/mob sub genre, using groundbreaking CGI/de-aging technology, re-teaming with De Niro & Pesci, and collaborating with Pacino for the first time, The Irishman ends up being a little bit disappointing. To me, it's not the best picture material we all thought it might be, but it's certainly worth watching. Some fantastic reflective (and impressively not showy) acting and directing from the film's main attractions, though I will say I didn't think the de-aging was effective at all. You can't de-age movement, nor can you really make De Niro look and feel 50 years younger than he is in real life, which is what they tried to do for the first section of the film. Ultimately, it's not a film I would ever re-watch or root for to win an Oscar, but I'm glad I had the opportunity to watch it at the very least.
8.2/10