A gangster film to be sure, but unique.

Rating: Null/10 (27 November 2019)

Please bare with me here a bit. First off, I had surprisingly many chances to see The Irishman in cinema, but did not because of its runtime. I just didn't want to miss a few minutes because I need to pee, that's all. My wee-counter on this watch at home was two, so I feel justified in that painful decision I had to make. But really come on, that's not an actual big deal and you're no less of a movie person if you wanna relieve yourself in peace, I think. The experience was great on my 4K TV as well, but still, I of course normally would've liked seeing it on the big screen. Anyway, the movie is great. The performances are very good, especially Robert De Niro toward the end is absolutely terrific and managed to break my heart a little which surprised me a lot. A character like that I didn't think I could even feel a tiny bit sorry for. And I guess I still don't, but the sincerity of the performance did a lot for me. Al Pacino also is quite brilliant and magnetic as can be. The direction is by Martin Scorsese, which is all anyone needs to say about that to get people interested in watching the thing. Then there's beautiful cinematography and a very good score as well as strong writing. Everything works. The runtime was never a big issue for me when it comes to pacing, but I still would've liked it to be shorter anyway because it's just a damn long time. Films shouldn't necessarily be that long in my opinion, but whatever, this one definitely pulled it off well. Now I'm gonna watch the conversation about it that Netflix put there to play after the film's finished. That's a nice thing to do by the way and I'd like that to happen more often.