The Irishman leaves you with a swallowing sense of regret, loss and frailty!

Rating: 9/10 (15 December 2019)

Missed 'The Irishman' during Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival with Star. It has taken me four days to watch it in bits and parts. Finally, watching it, is done. 😁
The Irishman leaves you with a swallowing sense of regret, loss and frailty. In a brilliant scene, Pesci's character tells De Niro's Frank Sheeran, "Look how strong I've made you. No one can touch you." The statement is starkly contrasted by powerful men who are assassinated, imprisoned, betrayed or weakened by age. Most devastating is watching a man achieve his peak power, and then see his slow realisation that he has lost the love of his children.
It will be revered as one of the greatest films ever produced about organised crime, and might very well be the definitive statement on the genre, because it's difficult to imagine anyone eclipsing what Scorsese has done here.
It is obviously long but it's never less than compelling -
#MartinScorsese, #RobertDeNiro, #AlPacino and #JoePesci, all in their mid-to-late-70s, are each carrying a lifetime of work, with practiced ease.
If you fortunately see them all together for 4 consecutive days, your happiness multiplies. 😁