New Releases #9: The Irishman Movie Review
My name is Logan Tyler Smith, and in this series of LoganLand Prime I will analyze movies that are newer or more contemporary in the public consciousness. Welcome to the New Releases series. In “The Irishman” a elderly former hitman named Frank Sheeran recounts the secrets he kept as a member of an infamous crime syndicate. Through flashbacks and flash-forwards, we learn of the toll killing has taken on him, his family and his criminal associates. The film is exactly what you can expect for a gangster movie in terms of scale and ambition. Director Martin Scorsese crafts a world that makes gang violence seem matter-of-fact but also somehow devastating - and the film itself executes that perfectly. In addition to the obviously phenomenal production design, the film also succeeds in getting memorable performances from digitally de-aged actors Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci (who came out of retirement for this picture), and Al Pacino (in his first time working for Scorsese). The fi