Worth a 7.5 but not an 8

Rating: 7/10 (1 March 2020)

Martin Scorsese is a true craftsman when it comes to creating enticing narratives and compelling characters. However. This. Eh.
For one. The fact it's 3 and a half hours long. Don't get me wrong. There are long films but when a quarter of it is useless dialogue. It gets hard to sit through.
On top of that. The VFX is just hard to look at. Like when Frank first meets Russel. It's more like watching a cut scene from GTA. It just doesn't work. They would've done a better job if they just cast someone younger. Like given young DeNiro wasn't in it for that long, they could've stuck a younger bloke in there and then used VFX for the later DeNiro.
Aside from all this, I think it was a good representation of the story of Jimmy Hoffa. Especially given I didn't know about it until watching the film. But as we already know from Raging bull, the wolf of Wall Street, goodfellas. Scorsese seems to shine at true stories. And I think this was a good example of it. Just a few tweaks and it could've been worth higher.