I know that Scorsese is like a god for most people and all main cast members are semi-gods themselves but this movie is just not good. The nostalgia for the times when tough Italian- or irish - guys with over inflated egos rule the world leaves a bad taste. The ludicrous ageing process of the actors does not help either. If this was done by Ed Wood, it would at least be funny. Here I could not keep watching because I cringed so hard looking at "young" De Niro. The others were not in better shape. It was just distracting. I think by insisting on casting the same actors for every stage of their lives, the director wasted the oppotunity to really pay tribute to those brilliant gangster movies from his earlier career. In fact the Irishman was like a parody of them. So sorry to witness this pointless effort .