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Sheeran often speaks of himself as a devoted family man, though his two wives and children occupy a mostly peripheral place on screen.
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Near the end of the film, Sheeran asks that his door be left slightly ajar, a mirror of something that occurs in an earlier scene between him and Hoffa. Split-screen shots show the striking transformations of the actors and myriad computer images provide glimpses of the meticulous methodology used to create this latest form of movie magic. Little details often make the biggest impressions - the opening of a cigarette case, the ignition of a lighter, the popping of a switchblade, bursting flashbulbs - but sonic accents like gunfire and explosions grab attention, too. Additionally, the de-aging CGI is pretty effective, allowing the actors to play a variety of ages; though there are times where their movements betray their real ages.
Excellent supporting turns from Harvey Keitel (appearing in his first Scorsese film since 1988's The Last Temptation of Christ), Ray Romano, Bobby Cannavale, Paquin (who's mute for most of the film), Stephen Graham, and Stephanie Kurtzuba, among many others, lend the movie additional snap, crackle, and pop. Amid all the character beats, cold-blooded violence, restaurant and nightclub tête-à-têtes, and prison scenes, Scorsese weaves plenty of history into the film - the Kennedys and Watergate figure prominently and provide time stamps for the drama - and peppers the action with inside info and mafia trivia.
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Rodrigo Prieto’s cinematography is ravishing, a feast of subtly varied autumnal hues that are occasionally punctuated by the bright, primal color of, say, a street sign or an ice cream sundae. It’s pretty by the numbers for what it is, touching on how the book was passed around and how the project gestated for years and years before finally filming. Criterion also packages the two discs in a very sturdy digipak, featuring artwork by Gregory Manchess. When the men are unloading the weapons from the US Army truck, two men can be seen carrying a box of rifles labeled "M-16" but the US Army didn't start getting M-16 rifles until 1964 which would have been three years after the Bay of Pigs Invasion that took place in 1961. At any rate, the final image still looks pretty solid and despite any reservations I had I'm still happy with it (and happy to be getting the film on video), yet I guess I was just hoping for a more obvious and clear upgrade over the streamable version.Rounding out the package is a featurette (also produced by Netflix) on The Irishman’s controversial de-aging effects, a few trailers, and archive footage of the real Sheeran and Jimmy Hoffa, which directly informed certain scenes in the film. Though at times he chews the scenery like a big juicy cigar, Pacino remains refreshingly in check most of the time, filing a finely tuned portrayal of a larger-than-life figure. Then came an almost quarter-century drought before Scorsese produced what likely will stand as his final, longest, and most poetic mob movie, 2019's The Irishman. Dialogue is focused primarily to the fronts, panning between the three front speakers (sounding sharp and crisp with incredible range) but the music and some of the background effects fill in the rest of the space nicely with decent height, like the sound of traffic early on in the film.
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Yes, the 4K Dolby Vision Netflix image is a tad sharper overall, but never once as I watched this Blu-ray rendering did I feel cheated by the presentation. In the same vein as GoodFellas and Casino, The Irishman tells a big, multi-decade tale, but Scorsese paints his canvas with more measured brushstrokes and tamps down the flourishes. He never raises his voice, recites his lines with uncharacteristic deliberation, and proves silence is golden with an array of vivid reaction shots that speak volumes about Bufalino's ruthless nature and grasping, manipulative personality. A roundtable conversation over drinks with Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci, which was available on Netflix last year, is mostly predicated on the correct assumption that audiences want to hang out with these legends, offering little new information about the making of The Irishman.I found motion and that to be better here, and at times, when comparing to the high-def stream on Netflix, I thought some textures—like a leather jacket De Niro wears early on—looked better here as well. The clear upgrade over the Netflix version is getting a Dolby Atmos soundtrack here when the Netflix version only delivers a 5. More so than Goodfellas or Casino, Scorsese’s two other told-in-retrospect gangster films, The Irishman—at least for the first two hours of its riveting three-and-a-half-hour runtime—feels composed of burnished, often blackly funny, fragments of erratic memory. ROBERT DE NIRO) looks back from a nursing home on his life's journey through the ranks of organized crime: from his involvement with Philadelphia mob boss Russell Bufalino (Goodfellas' JOE PESCI) to his association with Teamsters union head Jimmy Hoffa (The Godfather's AL PACINO) to the rift that forced him to choose between the two.
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Pacino is no less impressive as the volatile Hoffa , so stubborn in his need to hold onto the presidency of the union that he built from the ground up that he’ll heed no warnings to the contrary about the degree to which his conduct may court disaster or death.Reportedly, Pesci turned down the part of Russell Bufalino more than 50 times before Scorsese and De Niro finally coaxed him out of retirement. The speckled grit of asphalt, slick contours of Frank's leather jacket, bits of dirt on the car windshield, soggy flakes in a cereal bowl, gleaming automobile chrome, mirror-like reflections, and costume and upholstery textures all jump off the screen.