unmaking a dinosaur

Rating: 6/10 (28 November 2019)

Let's start with full disclosure about me and Scorsese. Taxi and Fellas appealed thru artless violence. Silence and Last, conspicuous attempts to "teach us" about God and/or religion, were sophomoric and poorly paced. Some of his other films I have never seen. Bull was hilariously cultish, and I loved it, but it was not stellar art. Departed, Aviator, Fear, Wolf, and Gangs are some of the best movies EVER made. EVER. EVER. Woops! 80% of those star Leo.....!! So I am a fan but I do not worship The Martin.
Irishman starts slow, really slow, and the de aging process is a spectacular fail. If we could make a dinosaur 26 years ago, we should be able unmake a dinosaur today. It actually looked like a ceramic face mold, not even made out of rubber. Whoever was in charge of this blew it; the Emperors have no clothes, and look like hoes. Old hoes.
I have never seen a mafia production after GF2 that was not a pale and predictable imitation of Coppola, except the Sopranos. In fairness to Scorsese, we have seen all possible mafia permutations, so the genre is already played out. I am trying to figure out what makes this movie special. And, come on, I adore Pacino, but he has been playing himself for 47 years.
Maybe the high score is due to millennials being so weary of MCU that ANYTHING is a relief.