What could have made this movie better than a 3/10 hack job.

Rating: Null/10 (30 November 2019)

Martin Scorse's new NetFlix movie, "The Irishman" was, to a certain
extent, a national event. After all Martin Scorsese, like Woody Allen,
and some others are national treasures and it is not everyday that
one of our national treasures puts out a virtually free movie that all
Americans can see and dicussion - a national cinematic forum to make
some kind of moralistic, artistic or at least patriotic statement. Instead,
blah, nothing, boring, and on top of all the negatives, there is nothing
to really verify that much of it or any of it was true.
This could have been a really good movie if they had just shifted the
plot and conflict to be more about Hoffa, who no Americans know about,
and whose history affected so many Americans. Americans should know
a lot more about history but especially a lot more about this history because
it has affected them so negatively. Few know who Jimmy Hodda was, and
or course nothing about the lying selfish criminal scumbag liar no one can
trust, Frank Sheeran.
Since the framework of the story was mostly based on a kind of nonsensical
story from Frank, who is the book written about him seems to be all about
Frank trying to take credit for every big Mafia crime or hit.
It seems like it would have been better to contrast the soul and crimes
of Frank Sheeran with the soul and crimes of Jimmy Hoffa. Hoffa was
no saint, ( or was he ) and consorted with and ultimately got run over,
chewed up and spit out by the mob by using them to stand up to the 0.01%
who were beating up. ripping off, stealing from the middle class of
America. What else could he do? ... or we never would have
heard of him or the Teamsters.
I don't think the writers of this movie were skilled enough to
tell that story, so they just re-did Casino and Goodfellas.
America was traumatized by the assassinations of the 60's
and 70's and as we can all see from the path of the country,
the bad guys won. They took over the unions, screwed over
the middle class, took their money, made them pay the taxes
for the rich, made then fight their evil wars, and bought up
the media and the news, bought up the military contractors,
bought up the drug and pharma, and now we are all paying
for it ... and dying for it, thanks to stupid sell-out, scumbags,
creeps like Frank Sheeran, the Mafia, etc.
In fact you can really say pretty catagorically that this was
a crappy film because it was situated so close to the rudders
and currents and captains of American history - and yet missed
the whole point to pander to a stupid unverified story about what
happened to Jimmy Hoffa and the minutia of Frank Sheeran's
evil life.