This was a good story and Robert DeNiro is one of the finest actors of all time.....But..for me, it was impossible to take the movie seriously in many parts when 70+ year old DeNiro was supposed to be a man in his 30s and 40s. Makeup artists routinely age young actors to look older but it just doesn't work the other way. Same goes for Pacino and others in the film. I'm sure I would have loved this moving if it was done in flashbacks with younger men playing the youthful parts in the movie. I just couldn't stop looking at the jet black shoe polished hair on DeNiro that was supposed to be enough to shave 35 years off his face and laugh. In my circle, people feel the same but clearly there's a much wider audience that easily overcame it based on the very high ratings.