Ridiculous

Rating: 4/10 (5 May 2020)

Maybe my experience was tainted by having read the book this movie was based on-I Heard You Paint Houses (which was a great read)-but this thing was just sad all around. The main character was this huge (like 6.6 250) tough as nails Irishman who basically could beat up just about anybody in a streetfight. Hoffa himself was short but very strong and tough. Having these two guys both in their mid 70s playing these guys as younger men was absurd-in one scene Frank (the Irishman) meets Buffalino when he is like 19 or 20-Russell helps fix his car-De Niro looks like a guy in his late 70s with a weird face-he doesn't move at all like an athletic 20 year old guy. Anyway the whole movie is like that-it just seemed ridiculous-especially when you consider Scorcese had the budget to get a proper cast and do a proper movie.