I don't know what's going on here. The real man, by all acounts should have spent a great deal of time in AA. Here he's portrayed as concerned father, family man, loyal and honorable. Who just happens to kill, blow up things, beat down people, bribe everybody and has a daughter whose carefully watching him. His heavy drinking is not shown. Here he might down a shot or two.

Based on the late life confessions of this man. The movie tries to imply he knew everybody. He's the Forest Gump of mafia circles.

It doesn't help that his account is heavily disputed and suspected to be him shopping a grand story trying to get money to try and leave his family some. The movie gets a lot of known historical detail right. The last 15 minutes is pure Sheeran. They would have you believe he was some super successful hitman of stars within the organization, who nobody ever knew was a hitman.

It is true he became a very close friend and confidant of Jimmy Hoffa. I would suggest you look at some of the debunking articles about the story though.

Deniro plays the same guy he has in 20 other movies. Joe Pesci steps out of his favorite method, crazed, manic, psychopath and instead plays a wizened old man who tries to be as tolerant as possible. Pacino does himself too. Overall Cannavale and Graham are very good. Those actors are younger and trying real hard. It's way too long, and really tries to over emphasize certain characters idiosyncrasies, especially Hoffa's. Showing us examples over and over.