Well…with all of the hype about how wonderful the new Scorsese movie “The Irishman” is, I decided to take a look at it and invest 3 1/2 hours into it last night….hmmmm…while I think it was a serviceable movie, I really don’t think it lives up to reviews that called it “a masterpiece”…especially after watching “The Godfather” earlier in the day which truly is a masterpiece. One of the most jarring parts of the movie was the attempts to de-age the main characters to show their earlier lives but DeNiro and Pesci still looked like they were in their sixties and the scene where they met over a broken down truck where Pesci called DeNiro “young man” was just weird…and during the rest of the movie, to see DeNiro doing entry level mob jobs when he still looks to be in his 60′s was jarring to say the least and destroyed the believability to me….so, would I recommend this movie? With a few cocktails, maybe…but I didn’t walk away saying wow! And that is what a masterpiece is to me…like watching “Casablanca” or “the Big Sleep”….and I sure wouldn’t rate it an 8.9 like it is on IMDB….