Stale is the kindest thing I think of to say about "The Irishman".

The reality of producing essentially the same "shamrock and spaghetti" gangster flicks, over and over again, is eventually, they become their own. horribly dated. cliche.

Such is the case with "The Irishman". It offers nothing new but then how could it? Its a factual organised crime tale that's not even half as interesting as its marketed. Worse still, its doing something we have all seen from Scorsese many times before. With much the same actors to boot. Why no new talent to invigorate things, at least a little?

To add to the misery, its overly long, essentially repeating the same tiresome patterns; "rob, bribe, intimate, kill", rinse out the blood and repeat. You can only experience this a limited number of times before it becomes psychologically numbing.

In short, a safe choice of actors, excessively long, repetitive and a somewhat boring.

5/10 from me.