Reviews

The Irishman is a three and a half hour movie but if you find the time to watch it you will not be dissapointed. It has everything needed to succeed times two. It has one of if not the best cast of the decade with legends like Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci and Harvey Keitel one of the best living directors, Martin Scorsese and an intriguing story. It follows Robert De Niro as Frank Sheran a loyal mafia hitman, good friends with powerful mob boss Russel Buffalino (Joe Pesci) and bodyguard to Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino). Frank Sheran becomes best friends with Jimmy Hoffa over the course of working with him, until Hoffa and the mob have a falling out. Hoffa wants the presidency at his union back put he offends a connected member in the process. He wants the mob to back him up but the mob wants him to cool it off, and Frank is caught in the middle. But Hoffa is hot headed and stubborn and won't cool off, and despite some serious diplomacy on Frank's part the mob decided if Hoffa won't calm down they're going to have to kill him. Frank is caught in the middle between following orders like he's been trained to do and his best friend, but in the end he follows orders. At the end of the movie in the retirement home Frank asks the nurse if she's heard about Jimmy Hoffa before and she said she hadn't which make Frank relasie that he went through all of that pain and lost his family for something that is now insignificant just like he is, he is going to die alone without family or friends and the only things that remind him of his old life are the ring given to him by Russel and the watch given to him by Jimmy. Those are the only remiders of how powerful he used to be and how pointless that power is now. In the end The Irishman in not on the same level as Goodfellas or The Departed but there is something that makes it special and uniqe, it has a deeper meaning and is one of Martin Scorsese's best and most important movies.