I aren't seeing what all the fuss is about. This is below average and way below Scorsese's standards.

Rating: 4/10 (3 December 2019)

I watched this movie on Netflix and was utterly underwhelmed by it after the three and a half hours I endured.
Robert De Niro is a brilliant actor who has a brilliant history but his talent has certainly faded with age and he can no longer deliver convincing performances, certainly not in this sort of role at least. Earlier scenes where he is portraying the much younger character were almost laughable, his hair and wrinkles were touched up to take years off his appearance but you couldn't help but see an aged man and it ruined every scene. There's a particular one in which he confirms someone for something they did to his daughter and the guy screams in pain but De Nero can barely lift his foot off the ground let alone swing a convincing blow.
Al Pacino was equally as bad, some of his line delivery was worse than kids performing in a school nativity play in primary school. He did have a couple of good scenes but on the whole it was another tragic Pacino performance.
As for the film storyline, there is just not enough substance in there to justify the runtime. I was seriously bored less than an hour into it and at the end of it was left feeling like I'd wasted my time. There is somewhat of an interesting gangster movie in there but there are far more irrelevant and unfulfilling scenes. I feel like there is at least an hour that could have been cut from the film that wouldn't have taken anything away from the story.
It's a shame, I was really looking forward to watching this and bought into all the hype but it didn't come close to living up to it.