Review: Martin Scorsese's Netflix epic 'The Irishman' is finally here, and it will blow you away
Martin Scorsese's "The Irishman" sounds like more of the same from a director we know well, someone we've been on a cinematic journey with for our entire viewing lives.
Yes, at 3 1/2 hours, it's arguably longer than it needs to be. Yes, its possibly true story of the life and crimes of a Mafia hit man who claimed he killed labor leader Jimmy Hoffa has been called not credible and worse. And yes, it's the umpteenth revisiting of the Italian American organized-crime milieu starring actors Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci, all directed by a man who also has been there before.
But, astonishingly, instead of business as
