The Irishman (2019)

Robert DeNiro is Frank Sheeran, aka "the Irishman," who is -- as an old man in a nursing home -- recounting his time in the mob and his friendship with Jimmy Hoffa.

There was a lot of hype around the reverse aging CGI utilized to make Pesci, DeNiro and Pacino look younger so that they could play themselves across several decades. This was a dumb idea since 1) it looked fake, which was distracting 2) I couldn't tell what age they were supposed to be -- it wasn't so much younger as weirder and 3) no one thought to CGI their bodies, meaning that when "young" DeNiro was kicking the shit out of someone on the street, he looked like a great-grandfather squeamishly stomping on a cockroach.

Also a dumb idea? Letting Scorsese take 200 minutes to tell a 120-minute story. Criminy.

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