This year, Hollywood's strongest movie hit is undoubtedly "Joker", Douban 8.8 points, word of mouth and box office double harvest, fire all over the world, but unfortunately did not get on the Chinese mainland big screen.
In "Joker", in addition to Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro also has an excellent performance, he starred in the film Murray, was once the clown's idol, and the Joker had the most critical opponent scene.
In November this year, Oscar-winning Robert De Niro brought a new work "The Irishman", an epic gangster movie, and the reputation is even better.
On the Douban platform, "The Irishman" has a rating of 9.1 points, more than 25,000 ratings, and more than 62% five-star praise, better than 99% of crime films and better than 98% of drama films.
Word of mouth is good enough to explode, worthy of the latest masterpiece of film master Martin Scorsese, the overall performance, good to impeccable.
Bringing together Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci and other powerful actors, the cast of "The Irishman" is very popular, and the three Hollywood veteran actors have provided wonderful performances.
The protagonist of the story is frank the "Irishman", based on his life, the story unfolds, showing the changing times of American society, focusing on the brotherhood between Frank and Jimmy and Russell, the key plot is around their relationship, the friendship years under the change of times.
Frank specializes in "cleaning houses", of course, he is not a decorator, but a gangster killer, specializing in tricky things, doing things quickly and fiercely.
Russell is a gangster figure, completely a godfather, black and white, a wide circle of relations, and sophisticated and calm, has always covered Frank, and is also Frank's close friend.
Jimmy is a prominent figure in the political arena, a trade union leader, once had unlimited scenery, but unfortunately stubborn, grumpy, always in the pursuit of fighting with the sky, with the earth, with people, enjoy endless happiness.
Frank and Jimmy were the same at first sight, jimmy was still the leader of the union at that time, but when he was sent to prison, he came out again, only to find that he had lost his power, and even the short man dared to anger him, and he was of course unwilling with his stubborn personality. Because of this, in order to save Jimmy from disaster, Frank has been sandwiched in the middle of the conversation, but Jimmy has never listened.
Regarding frank and Jimmy's friendship, "The Irishman" presents it in many details, and on the night of Frank's awards, although he knew that there were too many of his opponents at the party, Jimmy did not hesitate to choose to present him with the award. Jimmy hates waiting for people the most, waiting for the dwarf to fight with him for 15 minutes, but for Frank, he can wait for 40 minutes, and the first meeting is a hug.
The biggest attraction of the movie "The Irishman" is the choice frank made when he was forced to do it, but this is the thing he had to do and did not want to do, people in the jianghu, involuntary, in fact, he suffered more than anyone.
Just as frank in his old age said when he apologized to his daughter, a passage from the heart, tears, the vicissitudes of life will eventually come to an end.
The Irishman is 210 minutes long and three and a half hours long, and the film is quite rich, and Martin Scorsese has made an epic work with one shot.