Hyped beyond its value

Rating: 4/10 (3 January 2020)

A movie with this cast should have been much better. The acting is good but the story simply drags. Many people will find it boring. I know I did. ( fight scenes are silly, by the way. They look fake and DeNiro looks ridiculous. ). The Hoffa story has already been done enough times (and done better than this). Nicholson's film is far superior. Fans of the stars in this film will stick with it because they love these guys. Others may find it so drab that they'll only watch half of it and never finish. There's a good reason why this had a very limited theatrical release. Because it's not that great or interesting of a movie. It fits into a platform like Netflix and I'm sure many people will enjoy this movie on that platform. But it's not good enough for the big screen. It would have flopped badly and embarrassed all of the big names in the production. These three guys have been in movies that are much, much better than this. If this is their last major movie it's terrible that they would go out on a bland stinker. If not for the acting of the 3 stars I'd give this an even worse score. I'm being generous.