Long, Insightful, Occasionally amazing, Occasionally Boring

Rating: 8/10 (12 January 2020)

The character acting is fantastic, the portrayal of inter-personal relationships with respect to mob bosses and their "middle-management" is impeccable. The portrayal of mob influences on local businesses is great. The portrayal of the Teamsters' Union is really well done. I even learned a thing or two about this era of history. Overall there is an immense amount you could take away from this movie. It's a period piece with a touch of emotion here and there, albeit in the flavour of the gruff masculinity of mob men. It has a softer side, and deals with the concepts of getting old, and specifically how this disarms mean, bad, and violent men. It does drag quite a bit, especially in the beginning. I will say this part is necessary to get you accustomed to the characters, but I may just be waning as far as interest in New York / Las Vegas / New Jersey / Philadelphia mobster movies nowadays. I feel like Goodfellas or The Prestige, or The Godfather ar better watches than this, but this is still an excellent contemporary movie done in the vein of those movies.