This ain't no theme park, this is Scorsese!!!

Rating: 9/10 (9 November 2019)

The Irishman is Martin Scorsese's newest film based on the true events of the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa and the book I Heard You Paint Houses by Charles Brandt. I haven't read the book yet but this movie was so good I'm considering picking it up like I also did with Goodfellas.
People's main concern with The Irishman is the length and I may be biased since I love the long life of a mobster movies like Once Upon a Time in America but I never felt like the film dragged, it always kept me interested and the non-linear story was never confusing I always knew where I was and what was going on.
This is Robert DeNiro's 9th film with Martin Scorsese and his first time working with him since 1995 in Casino.Now DeNiro is 76 he still completely gives it his all and this is his best performance since 1997's Jackie Brown. Everything between Robert DeNiro and Joe Pesci was just enthralling, the dynamic between the characters felt so right, it's hard to example you're just engrossed in the dialogue and world built around these characters and Joe Pesci coming out of retirement for this movie was probably the best decision he could have made as this is my favourite Joe Pesci performance. I loved Al Pacino as Jimmy Hoffa doing a sort of similar performance to his character in Heat and despite the fact that he doesn't have many lines Harvey Keitel gives a great performance as the brooding Don Corleone type of character. Something I've heard quite frequently is that Anna Paquin as Peggy doesn't have enough lines and I'm just going to say that her silence is what tears Frank (Robert DeNiro's character) apart especially when they are watching on the news about the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa and she stares at him in silence as she knows fully well that Frank killed Hoffa and he just has to sit there as he losses his daughter.
A main part in the production of this film was the digital de-aging used through out the majority of the film and to my surprise it looked really well and never took me out of the experience, expect for one point when he beats up the grocery store worker for pushing his daughter it is so clear that it's just a young mans face on an old mans body.
While watching it's so clear that Martin Scorsese was trying to re-encapsulate his golden days with Goodfellas and Casino and that isn't necessarily a bad thing but mainly the thing that stood out to me was the sound track, it was just too similar to the Goodfellas sound track and occasionally when watching Robert DeNiro all i could think of was Jimmy Conway.
The Irishman was a brilliant return to form of Scorsese that kept me entertained at all times and is currently my favourite film of 2019 and I doubt any other film will change that. It was just another cinematic masterpiece from Scorsese