Good but not Goodfellas good

Rating: 6/10 (1 December 2019)

I was maybe expecting too much from this because of who's in it, what it's about and the fact it's the last time this group of people will collaborate. It's a long one! But you wouldn't expect anything less from the director and the topic at hand. It's not an instant classic, like Goodfellas was for example, but it's still a powerful film full of great scenes.
Some really good performances pepper the film, Pesci in particular, Pacino too but I was a little less blown away by De Niro...the cgi too threw me a bit because the actors all had old man bodies but not their faces. Still, you get used to it. Supporting roles are less impressive, Ray Romano is just himself and the guy playing Tony Pro is now forever going to be typecast as a bad Italian American impersonator.
What made this less of a clear classic was that it was slightly bitty. It's as if at times they were forcing a scene into the film for context so it didn't flow...the guys seemed a little rusty too at times maybe because it's been so long since they made a film of this type which in all honesty should've been made a decade ago when they were all that little bit younger.