Its another Godfather type movie from Scorsese. And all his buddies are in it. DeNiro is his usually self acting like DeNiro. Sorry I do not think he is a great actor he just plays the same character over and over again. Pacino loves to yell so he was good playing Jimmy Hoffa. But of all the actors Joe Pesci should have won the Oscar for best actor. He was superb!! Overall the story was good, but way too long. Of course history was re-written in the movie at various parts to make it more interesting to viewers. Added violence always helps. I did speed up some parts because I really could not believe DeNiro as an Irishman even with Blue contact lenses. But its Scorsese's movie so he chose the cast. If they cut an hour out of the movie it would have helped. Better yet, if they got more youthful actors rather than 3 aging 70+ year olds to play the part of the people in the movie who were actually suppose to look like they were in their 30 and 40s that would have helped a great deal more and saved a ton of money on make-up.