Why, Scorsese, Why? An agonizingly long pointless waste of time.

Rating: Null/10 (29 November 2019)

What a sad movie.
Not because it was supposed to be a cautionary tale of an old mobsters comeuppance.
Take off The Scorsese love googles and look at the reality of this painfully long, boring proven to be lies of an old alcoholic " who never killed a fly."
It went from an interesting, entertaining tall tale novel to this futile attempt at being interesting.
Netflix spent 200 million on DeNiro's weird blue eyes and the old gangs flat facial expressions?
Their egos got the better of them all.
Perhaps hiring younger actors to portray them in their youth?
The Godfather. DeNiro brilliantly portraying Marlon Brando's Vito Corleone as a young man.
Did they all "forget about it"?
Pesci calling DeNiro a "kid" funny/sad.
Apparently the power ego Scorsese's developed over his life time of masterful film making took over on this shoot because he was, yes was an extremely talented visionary in his genre of story telling and his ego drove his better judgement into a 3 and 1/2 hour ditch.
"Rush the gun, run from the knife" ?
"Take the gun, leave the cannoli".
I prefer the original, dark humorous line.
That unoriginal dialogue was chewed to bits by Pacino.
If this receives any Oscar, Emmy ect. nominations/awards, Hoffa is still alive and the fix is in.
These reviews of 10's coming from NY, London Film Festivals ect., are by invitation only and mainly charity events, These people understandably wish to be invited back into the glitz and glamor next year or they're bots.
There are no real critics anymore.
Only bloggers, paid for their reviews,
YouTube channels paid for views and fanboys.
This movie was so hyped. I'd read the novel which was a lot more entertaining.
I was deflated after pushing through the first 2 torturous hours with a mere 1 and 1/2 hours to go.
For me, this wasn't a movie, it was a battle of my endurance to stay awake and finish this while hoping for something better.
The pure waste of the talented women cast, why bother casting them at all?
I couldn't suspend disbelief or become emotionally invested because
I was bogged down in bad dialogue, pointlessly long scenes w/o payoffs.
Apathy for all characters.
I'd hoped for a great movie, not Good Fellas II, no repeats of the younger Scorsese and his crews glory days.
We all change with time and I wanted this to be for the better.
Nostalgia fact: If any other director and cast put this movie out, I stand by the full knowledge that it would have been panned to the ground by real viewers.
I truly wanted something original and riveting.
This was not to it.
Forgive me this one indulgence,
Take the cannoli, leave The Irishman.