The three lead characters are all near 80 and they are supposed to incorporate far younger guys. Nothing against old actors but this just felt not right. Why did not the director pick up a younger guy to play Frank when he started his career with the Mob? It worked in The Godfather....The scenes with Niro being a father to a young daughter and having a young wife while he looks like their grandfather in spite of the makeup and computer are cringeworthy. Are we supposed to buy the fact that this elderly character is an important muscle of the Mob ? Al Pacino is a great actor and he is really trying, especially he is yelling round a lot as if he wants to show us how full of energy he is, but it just felt kind of wierd, him portraying a 50 something year old Hoffa for one simple reason: he is just a couple months shy of 80 and it shows, he even has a hunchback of some kind, which just cannot make him seem to be a 50 year old, the same problem with de Niro, who was not particularly good in this, just showing the same grimace over and over again until you tire of it,moreover, one has really study Wikipedia to know all these characters / mobsters, union leaders etc.../Pesci was actually the best of the three, a good, subdued acting. The movie has a very well done production / clothing and style of the era in the 50's and 60's wonderfully depicted, many scenes accompanied with music of that era, this is nice but still does not make me care...the screen time is horribly long, more than 3 hours, which is unbearable.