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A swing and a miss is the way I\u2019d describe it. Formulaic. I know what the Italian quattro<\/em> (Scorcese, Pacino, DeNiro, and Pesci) were thinking: Hey, it worked before; maybe it will work again.\u00a0 The mob. The Kennedys and Castro. DeNiro as an Irish hit man. Hoffa. Music from the 1950s. Voiced-in explanations from the main characters giving the lowdown on each mob dude. Over-restored \u201850s and \u201860s cars. Let\u2019s throw it all against the silver screen for 3\u00bd hours and maybe something will stick (yeah, you read that right: 3\u00bd hours). I know what they were thinking:\u00a0 Goodfellas<\/em>, The Godfather<\/em> (and all of its Roman-numeraled follow-ons), and Casino<\/em>.\u00a0 Yeah, it worked before, so maybe it will work again. Except it doesn’t.\u00a0 Those earlier mob flicks were great. The Irishman<\/em> is not.<\/p>\n Guys, at some point you have to realize there\u2019s not any milk left in the cow. Even with your digital filtering to make old guys look young, all you gave us were weird, slitty-eyed visions of a younger DeNiro with the body and gait of a senior citizen (where\u2019s Fredo when you need him?). \u00a0And Pacino playing Hoffa? Another swing and a miss (you should have let the ump call a strike). Jack Nicholson will forever be Jimmy Hoffa; Pacino just wasn\u2019t believable in this role.\u00a0 If you can see it, then hey, I\u2019m the Pope.\u00a0 Al, go back to threatening Mr. Trump. You\u2019re not believable in that role, either, but you apparently know what they say about bad publicity.<\/p>\n Save your money, folks, and hang on to that 3\u00bd hours of your life I\u2019ll never get back.\u00a0 The Irishman<\/em> is one that should sleep with the fish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A swing and a miss is the way I\u2019d describe it. Formulaic. I know what the Italian quattro (Scorcese, Pacino, DeNiro, and Pesci) were thinking: Hey, it worked before; maybe it will work again.\u00a0 The mob. The Kennedys and Castro. DeNiro as an Irish hit man. Hoffa. Music from the 1950s. Voiced-in explanations from the … Continue reading “Movie Review: The Irishman”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,64],"tags":[943],"class_list":["post-6780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feel-good-stuff","category-gear","tag-movie-review"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6780"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6784,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6780\/revisions\/6784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}