I don't understand the 9-10 star reviews here. Scorsese is better than this overlong, drawn out, too much dialogue (except notably for Anna Paquin) and too much voice-over effort at the gangster genre. Just dull and plodding. And I agree with the comments that point out the incongruous movements of older actors playing much younger characters - de-aging does NOT help here! It's embarrassing. And Pesci referring to DeNiro as "kid" when they meet? Who's kidding who here. Extremely disappointing!