The film was beautifully made but Scorcese, DeNiro and Pesci had already made their masterpiece in Goodfellas and Pacino had already made his masterpiece in the Godfather movies so why make another gangster movie, especially about a subject few people remember and even fewer care about anymore? I'm guessing it's because they are all heading for the Nursing home like Frank Sheeran and they wanted a swan song before they checked out. I don't see how all of the rave reviews can save this movie because if you took all of the reviewers and put them in a theater they would barely fill it for one showing. Who is going to fill the theaters after that? Oh well, at least that huge budget provided employment for a lot of people and they can have a merry Christmas.