By: Lisa

Lisa — Sun, 22 Dec 2019 15:04:34 +0000

This film was anything but boring. I usually stop movies a bunch of times to get up and do something but I was riveted for 3 hours. I’ve always been fascinated by the Hoffa story, though. I thought of all the all stars in this film that Pacino shone brightest although props to Joe Pesci for coming out of retirement to do this film and of course who doesn’t love some DeNiro? I thought about the lack of development of the female characters (they either smoked, complained in the background or just made sour faces like Anna Paquin) but in this film it would have been gratuitous to give them any more since it would have been outside the scope of the story which was about this group of men. My only concern with the story is that it’s based solely on the book by Sheeran so we have to wonder if he made his own role in the organization maybe a bit bigger than it really was but ultimately it just adds more mystery to what really happened to Jimmy Hoffa which at this point we will never know as those who did know are long gone. If someone finds this film boring then I guess they just were looking for Goodfellas number 2 and not a more introspective look at the men themselves and that’s too bad. It’s rare that any film lives up to the hype its received but I believe this one does.

By: Pedro

Pedro — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 12:58:11 +0000

It wasn’t boring in the slightest. There are digressions, but are digressions by definition, needless, boring and unnecessary? No, of course not. And I’m really not willing to dwell on that point, because it’s pointless, and if you thought that the movie was boring or too long, then you’re not reading this comment anyway.
I completely agree with you about the best part being the epilogue. Even though Al Pacino only shows up an hour into the movie, the driving force behind the film is his friendship with De Niro’s character. When Hoffa is killed, everything else is epilogue. Yet, when he dies, there are still 30 mins left in the movie. When I first watched it, I thought (ohhh, boy, is this going to be an indulgent bore?). Instead we have the greatest American director alive questioning and descontructing his own oeuvre. The gangsters that he had a part in glorifying in Goodfellas and Casino, are now all dying empty lives. No family, no money, no power, no glory. To me, it’s a hugely courageous move on Scorcese’s part (who’s close to 80 himself), to examine his own filmography, and offer…what? a rebuke? an alternate opinion? I prefer to think the perfect ending for a legendary career.

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