Utterly bewildering

Rating: 1/10 (6 December 2019)

Apart from everything else (absurd length, boring dialogue, phoned in acting, trite patronizing soundtrack, etc etc) WHY oh WHY did they go with this reverse aging CGI thing?? If you are going to take a risk like that, shouldn't you make sure it actually WORKS? Because it doesn't, and it completely distracts and confuses the viewer. From that perspective, I will say that I got a ton of laughs seeing De Niro's bizarre 'young' alien eyes in scene after scene. Ridiculous wigs and dye jobs on all the actors too. Pacino comes across like that loud senile guy in the nursing home who's always shouting incoherently. It's hard to believe that every one of these guys used to be so magnificent onscreen. Martin, please. Stop.
The one good thing about this movie is that it has really alerted me to the utter corruption of all these professional critics as well as the review websites. Even the stars of this film cannot truly believe that it is good.