A lot of interesting stuff, but maybe a little too much

Rating: 9/10 (3 February 2020)

I really liked "The Irishman". It's a long movie but the flow and the pacing are consistent and there's always something happening, and so I never felt bored, which is a possible issue for a movie 3 and half hours long. Thanks to his length the movie can takes its time to characterise well every protagonist and makes them feel like people and not only some mere characters. The performances are also great (De Niro, Pacino and Pesci were fantastic) and Scorsese did a remarkable job. The major flaw I found is that there's too much stuff, a lot of names thrown in one time and then touched again one hour later, or a lot of stories the narrator talked about which only scope was to contextualise something. The problem isn't that all this stuff isn't interesting, but at one point there's some confusion about what's going on or what character is who and so on. And I'm sure that a second/third watch would provide all the clarification but in theory it shouldn't be necessary. But other than that a very well made movie, surely worth checking out.