I wanted this to be a masterpiece...

Rating: 7/10 (28 November 2019)

I so wanted this movie to be a masterpiece a 9 or 10 out of 10 movie. It's been in the works for quite some time. I think the script is excellent, the problem is Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, let me say that i am massive fan of De Niro and Pacino they are actors in some of my favourite movies of all time and if they were 30 years younger it would have worked brilliantly, but unfortunately they are not and the roles did not suit them, even with the facial effects.
DeNiro just looked and moved so unrealisticly as Sheeran, similarly Pacino with Hoffa, they did whatever possible with their faces and you could kind of forget about it after the first hour or so, but the bodies let the movie down. There was a scene at the beginning when DeNiro is supposedly a young kid maybe late 20s and he looks and walks like he is in his 50s. There is another scene with an altercation with the grocer, it's laughable, how Scorsese let that scene in the final cut i will never know.
Its a shame as i think this movie had all the makings of a masterpiece, i understand Scorsese wanting to use his old friend DeNiro and the chance to work with the legend Al Pacino but i can't help thinking if Bale played Sheeran and Leo played Hoffa this would have been one of the best films of the decade. I must give a shout out to Pesci who i thought played his role brilliantly and the facial recognition was pretty good on him, he was a shining light in this movie and to think he has been out acting for a long time.
Its a solid movie and Scorsese always tells a good story, to me it's a case of what could have been. 7/10