Given all the great reviews of this movie by the professional critics, some of my friends, and many of the User Critics, I guess I'm going to be a contrarian.

I did see The Irishman on Netflix last night but I was kind of disappointed after hearing all the high praise. The movie really needed some good editing as there were lots of unnecessary scenes and the film lacked a certain "tightness". Also, I know many people didn't mind it, but the "de-aging" of the actors didn't seem to work very well. We know what the actors actually looked like at the ages depicted in the movie and their "de-aged" personas didn't look close to reality. Plus, they walked around like old men. Instead of 'getting the band back together', so to speak, I think Scorsese would have been better off having a group of younger actors play the parts and then computer aging them. That seems to work better.

Overall I'd say it was "OK" but far from being one of Scorsese's best. Besides, if I'm going to spend 3 ½ hours watching a movie it better at least be the quality of Showgirls.

I'm not an experienced reviewer so I'd direct you to the review on this site, done by CarsonTrent, who was much more professional in his writing and whose thoughts I agree with totally.