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- 2019
- R
- 3 h 29 m
- 2019
- R
- 3 h 29 m
Summary The Irishman is an epic saga of organized crime in post-war America told through the eyes of World War II veteran Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro), a hustler and hitman who worked alongside some of the most notorious figures of the 20th Century. Spanning decades, the film chronicles one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in American histor...
Directed By: Martin Scorsese
Written By: Steven Zaillian, Charles Brandt
- 2019
- R
- 3 h 29 m
- 2019
- R
- 3 h 29 m
The Irishman
8.1
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Summary The Irishman is an epic saga of organized crime in post-war America told through the eyes of World War II veteran Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro), a hustler and hitman who worked alongside some of the most notorious figures of the 20th Century. Spanning decades, the film chronicles one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in American histor...
Directed By: Martin Scorsese
Written By: Steven Zaillian, Charles Brandt
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 55 Critic Reviews
94
100% Positive
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0% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 55 Critic Reviews
94
100% Positive
55 Reviews
55 Reviews
0% Mixed
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
0% Negative
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With The Irishman, Scorsese offers us his first truly autumnal film – a picture about age’s slow, inevitable decline. There are the signature dolly shots, the period pop music, the bursts of brutality, but there is also a frail melancholy we have rarely glimpsed in even his statelier films.
With The Irishman, America’s greatest living director creates his late-career masterpiece, a deeply felt addition that vibrantly sums up every landmark in his crime-cinema arsenal, from 1973’s "Mean Streets" through "Goodfellas," "Casino," "Gangs of New York," and the Oscar-
winning "The Departed."
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 1,296 User Ratings
8.1
83% Positive
1074 Ratings
1074 Ratings
10% Mixed
126 Ratings
126 Ratings
7% Negative
96 Ratings
96 Ratings
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 1,296 User Ratings
8.1
83% Positive
1074 Ratings
1074 Ratings
10% Mixed
126 Ratings
126 Ratings
7% Negative
96 Ratings
96 Ratings
It’s a masterpiece. I was not prepared for how devastated I would be seeing the stories of these three men unfold. The last scene between Pesci and De Niro had me in tears. De Niro doesn’t get enough credit for his performance in this film; all his “old age” scenes were absolutely devastating. It’s a damn shame all the de-aging hullabaloo distracted from his overall performance. Beyond the obvious comeuppance that characterized the 3rd act, it was also in a sense a poignant conclusion to Scorsese’s “gangster” filmography, and almost doubles as a meditation on his own life and career within the genre that has defined him.
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With every main character being close to 80 years old or older, NEVER in a million years did I think Scorsese had another Goodfellas/Casino level movie left in him... Boy was a wrong. Don't let the 3½+ runtime turn you away because you'll be hanging on every minute and wishing there was more movie left once the credits roll. Truly a masterpiece
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Scorsese’s gangster movies indulge the genre’s pleasures, of course, but in each of them—all seven of them—he’s looking for spirituality and for humanity. In The Irishman, he’s in self-reflection mode, glancing at his career-long search for God while pondering his own age.
I found myself reluctantly taken by the movie, and the way Scorsese uses it to maybe, just a little bit, atone for some of his own past blitheness about violence. In The Irishman, a merry darkness slowly becomes an elegy, ringed with guilt. And what could be more Irish than that?
Scorsese knows what his audience is hoping for: glory days, resurrected. But he also understands the impossibility of anyone being exactly as they once were. So he weaves that longing into both The Irishman‘s text and its technique.
Does this stylistically unstylish picture stand with the lurid glories of “Casino,” the pulse-pounding narrative drive and cinema semiotics of “The Departed,” or the charismatic cynicism of “Goodfellas?” Give me a freaking break.
The best and most underrated Scorsese film in my opinion. Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci give career best performances in this film.
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I thought this movie was reasonable. The acting is all quite good, you get stuck into the story a little. The movie was tremendously long, which I found really killed the immersion.
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Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) is a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky (George Clooney) in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone - tethered to nothing
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I held out a long time before watching it, wife wanted to see it badly and insisted on seeing it all in one sitting, so took a while to find the time. We watched about an hour of it... I turned to her, stopped the movie and said "This is sooo boring" to which she said "Wow, it's crazy, I thought the exact same thing". So we stopped watching.
Without revealing anything, the actors are playing their roles in different timelines and the aging techniques they used are horrible. They have so much make-up and CGI they look like clowns. In one particular scene one of them is beating some random dude and it's like a bad school play.
The whole plot is very mildly interesting and they couldn't interest any of us to keep watching. Sad to see so much talent bunched together fail to be interesting.
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No way does this movie deserve a 94 weighted score. Goodfellas is my all time favorite movie and I admire the team that put together the Irishman. But the acting was uninspired, particularly from Pesci and Pacino who always seemed to be aware that they were being filmed, and DeNiro, who was wooden throughout. Harvey Keitel and Katherine Narducci were two bright spots but barely registered in the story. The editing was very poor and couldn’t save what was a weak script to begin with. I think that Scorsese and team tried to duplicate the intensity and energy of goodfellas but came up far short.
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Production Company
Tribeca Productions,
Sikelia Productions,
Winkler Films
Release Date Nov 1, 2019
Duration 3 h 29 m
Rating R
Tagline His story changed history.
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 10 Nominations
Golden Globes, USA
• 5 Nominations
Critics Choice Awards
• 1 Win & 14 Nominations
