Long, kind of Mafia formula movie

Rating: 6/10 (30 November 2019)

6.5 This is long and draggy.Deniro is too old for the part of the young Shearan. He also walks like an older man.His body looks it's age. The aging only works for the end scenes.It is not a great concept. You never get a read as to what made Shearan into a killer.His experiences inWW2? Shearan in real life was a large guy at 6' 4" .BobbyD. does not look like him. This movie had a similar concept as Goodfellas,the same type of music, similar to A Bronx tale. It's not the Godfather ,just as long.Pacino stole the show as the stubborn Jimmy Hoffa. Joe Pesci is a rather low key benign mafia guy. Are we supposed to think a for hire killer would want or need a daughter's love? If you say so but it was not convincing. Ensemble Italian mafia actors are always in these types of movies.That is why they are so similar and formulaic. Same faces ,music, draggy.