Masterpiece!!..but I would never believe an Irishman!..now onwards.

Rating: 8/10 (27 November 2019)

Let me get down straight to the point because I have just finished my movie and I am feeling sour about what The Irishman is...we will talk about it later.
Screenplay: centered around De Niro with Pacino playing second major and Pesci having screen presence of around 10-12%. If I had to rate screenplay alone of this movie ...I would give it 6-7... I know what I am saying because I am a huge fan of Scorsese's narrative gansta-land flicks, slow moving but detailed description of events. But don't get me wrong ...this is nothing in front of CASINO and Goodfellas, when it comes to screenplay...let me repeat again..." In screenplay this movie lacks significantly if not a lot"..Why?..side characters barring a few have not been given many dialogues to speak...events are slowed up intentionally to give Classical feeling..but these things doesn't add up to any meaning this time Martin, or do they?..Besides that, all props and cars and scenarios created, really were able to bring back those 60s-70s onto the screen.
Acting: O man, don't ask me ....DE NIRO is fabulous..He has acted so well that fifteen minutes into the movie , you would fall for him...and your heart would say let this man have 10 Oscars for this movie alone. De Niro is not stopping..I think he won't retire with less than 5 Oscars...and damn the luck of Mr. Joaquin who may again loose this time to Mr Bobby De Niro...who paints houses.ðŸ¤£
PESCI didn't have much scope ..we can say..being moderate...or we can say, that He now ain't the same Guy who used to ask people to fetch shine boxes or ask people if he was being funny while pointing a gun towards them..I would say he looked better stabbing 7 foot tall guys with pens and whatever he could get his hands on.
PACINO as authoritative as always..I think some roles were always meant to be played by AL only, and nobody could have pulled the act of Teamster's leader with such flamboyance...seeing him play Hoffa you get a sense that Scarface isn't dead yet...and I couldn't stop myself from mentioning..I stopped watching the movie when AL died..he is so lovely...and his role is so good and moral and he is so right in whatever he think or does that you as a viewer become biased and take sides...that's what I did...I couldn't see the movie after he died..I couldn't handle my emotions.
I have written so much about acting because it is what is holding pieces together...if this movie is legendary...it is because of the weight BOBBY and Al put in behind their roles...Al had screen presence of 60 minutes less than Bobby ..so I see Bobby grabbing The Golden Lady this year.. my rating to acting- 9.7/10.
CGI- Me and my movie buff friends were quite worried about CGI and whether it would be helpful in hiding the real ages of the three veterans...and astonishingly CGI was effective in the increasing order Pesci, Pacino and Bobby....it looks as if 70% of CGI budget has been put into blurring Bobby's wrinkles ..while Pesci was left as old as he is...Also much work has been done on faces...but what about bodies Martin?...they all looked like old and grumpy men all through the movie...this is huge letdown...I am telling you that because it's too bad to have legends acting, legends directing and you all war like prepared to watch the movie ...but when you see it you feel something is missing...and that's what it is...how can Martin do that with Pesci's face..?..and what about the dropping shoulders of Pacino ...I should again mention BOBBY looked all fine...it looks as if Martin was all worried about him getting an Oscar...which btw he deserves...Hell of an actor.
Background music: Ok... tempting but not quite to be remembered.6/10
Story: Mostly Real events...whatever fiction was there is good and is fine edged....trip is smooth ...until for me Pacino dies(omg ..such a heartbreak) .8/10

NOW COMING TO THE MOST IMPORTANT POINT: after watching 2:30 hrs something of this movie I was like what the hell did I see..? I mean Martin's characters used to have morals...ain't that what Bobby keeps on saying on various late night shows...Even Gangstas used to have ethics ...now that's what missing... emotional beings like me would never see any resemblance with Bobby's character ..because after all the emotional backdrop that he himself produces...he shots his friend Down.!!!. I would never have done this...not even for 10s and 100s of millions of dollars or with a iron piece to my head...never...I mean this is ridiculous...it is so anti-heroic..We cannot cherish what Bobby did...Martin should have paid heed that in his and Coppola's classics main leads did such things only when they had some solid ethical reason..(whenever they shot one of their own)..and till the shooting Al's character did nothing against the hood... whatever was there was in the wind...was an expectation...and why the hell Irishman and Buffalino guy didn't shoot that Pro guy down instead..??.it baffles me...hence Martin ...
8/10 FROM MY SIDE...
AND CONCLUSION IS THAT I THINK YOU MISSED THE LEGENDARY STATUS FOR THIS MOVIE because of some subtle and some not so subtle reasons. Must watch.