Scorsese's shot at being Coppola

Rating: 1/10 (15 December 2019)

Where do I even begin! Oh, I know. This movie made $7.5 mil in the box office. On a $160mil budget. Scorsese's fanbase is dying off. Together with whatever talent he had.
This film is bad in every single aspect. The actors are bad. I just can't stand the DeNiro's scowl anymore. Can't he invent just one more face expression in 50 years? I mean, practice in front of the mirror. The Italian Pacino as the German Hoffa is just pathetic. He tries to relieve his glory days by scratching at the bottom of his monologue delivery but still fails miserably. Joe Pesci... COME ON! Leo Getz was his best role and that's where it all ended. A real missed opportunity here. Someone should tell Scorsese there are other actors in America. You just can't pick the cast from your Rollodex. And DiCaprio was busy shining his Oscar.
The CGIed "de-aging" just doesn't work. Pesci calling DeNiro "kid"? He's half a year younger!!! Not that it matters at 75. Blue eyes on DeNiro? For $160mil they could've hired CGI specialists who don't operate from their moms' basements.
The plot is pathetic. Jimmy Hoffa was murdered because he wanted to take back his union? (If you hibernated in the 70s, spoiler alert.) That was the first thing FBI looked at. And they've been looking at it for the past 50 years. What was the point?
All-in-all, a miserable fail with artificially inflated ratings and praises from the journalists who hope to interview Scorsese about the Taxi Driver.