Opinion: The Martin Scorsese-directed Netflix film is boring, ill-acted, poorly written and amateurishly directed.
again. Every scene is beautifully crafted and 100% needed in this film. If you think Scorsese is just leaving scenes in because he can, you’re wrong. The guy is a true storyteller and I wished it was another 4 hours.Rarely has a film been so polarising, drawing a crowd that loves it to pieces and alienating a vast swath of viewers turned off by the joyless slog through the bowels of moviemaking.
I can tell that this flick, now available in homes to a vast audience through the magic of the internet, is of questionable quality because friends who defend it to the hilt are prone to suggesting that its many detractors – folks who’d rather stick pins in their eyeballs than submit to a second helping of this cinematic Hindenburg – are not too smart.
One guy friend even contended that it was a “male movie”, implying that we chicks, many of whom enjoyed the cheerful blood and guts of, are biologically incapable of warming to a biopic about a dull sociopath, the Mafia hitman Frank Sheeran .Source:News Regional Media Never mind that the real-life Sheeran, who in death can no longer argue his case, appears to have invented the story told in the movie, based on a book written by his lawyer, that he was just following orders when, he claims, he murdered one of his best friends, ex-union boss Jimmy Hoffa .
Also recounted in the film, without a lick of scepticism, is the claim that John F. Kennedy rode a wave of mob vote-rigging to the presidency, then was ordered assassinated by the very same gangsters.seems to deliver a tacit, protest-too-much warning that the film is a bust: “No,Joe Pesci and Robert De Niro in The Irishman. Picture: Niko Tavernise/Netflix
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