Written by James M. Tate / 11/27/2019 / No comments / 2019 , al pacino , biopic , drama , epic , joe pesci , martin scorsese , mob , robert deniro , thriller
REVIEW OF MARTIN SCORSESE'S ANTICIPATED 'THE IRISHMAN'
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Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro in THE IRISHMEN Year: 2019 |
Unlike Scorsese's mob classic GOODFELLAS, ironically playing-out like binge crime serials do now — with something to anticipate around every suspenseful corner — there's nothing to look forward to here except more and more conversations with De Niro on cruise control and Pacino using a fake accent that's not only distracting, but completely unnecessary.
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Al Pacino looking more like Obama RATING: * |
Meanwhile, the continuous wrap-around section involves an afternoon drive with De Niro and Joe Pesci's powerful but overall pointless mobster Russell Bufalino, and there are a few new expository devices, perhaps to deviate from GOODFELLAS and CASINO: Like every mobster introduced having words flash on the screen telling when and how they're eventually killed. It's not entirely clear why this happens other than to remind us who the movie's about, or that no one else actually matters...
And yet, backed by the usual Scorsese jukebox of vintage rock/soul tunes while peppered with rushed spurts of ultra-violence, we learn even less about the doomed union leader than in Danny DeVito's limp Jack Nicholson as HOFFA biopic: proof that the man's legacy has nothing to do with his story, because he obviously doesn't have one worth telling, or watching.
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Robert De Niro listening to more and more talk from Hoffa in The Irishman |
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And a prodigal icon Joe Pesci also talks and listens in Martin Scorsese's The Irishman |
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Computerized icons Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro talk and talk in THE IRISHMEN |
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Martin Scorsese's Netflix Original THE IRISHMEN |
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