1.5 out of 5

While struggling through my latest bout of... you know... I managed to watch the movie "The Irishman". Jesus, it's long. It took me four sittings across three days to get through it all, and I'm not really sure it was worth the effort. The story is an interesting one, but is probably a complete fabrication, or parts of it at least. Frank Sheeran and his biographer almost certainly exaggerated a lot of his importance. No-one was going to buy the book without the 'big reveal' about his involvement in Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance, I imagine, so how far that is rooted in truth, who can say?
And as for the 'ground-breaking' de-aging process, I thought they all looked like they had weird masks stretched across their faces. And the effects were wasted anyway, because these alien-looking youthful faces were being imposed on actors in their 70s, who moved exactly like you would expect 70-year-olds to move. De Niro is a fantastic actor, but he can't leap around like a lithe 35-year-old, so the physical scenes (especially when he attacked people) looked clumsy and awkward and just, well, weird.
Good to see Joe Pesci in a film again, though. He was great.

RC 26-8-23