The more-of-a-cat-guy guy loved it. So maybe it's just not for dogs. (You really didn't like it? Man, I thought everyone in it was fan-fucking-tastic.)
I think it would have been hard to watch on the big screen....it started slowly for the first hour...then picked up a bit. I watched it on Netflix in 45 minute stretches with breaks and thought the acting and settings were brilliant. One thing that I noticed.....no gratuitous sex...no T and A and the violence, murder was not action film style....the guns just made a small pop and didn't sound like a Clint Eastwood cannon..the made it very realistic on that end ....it was filmed sparsely and in a 70s style. I thought Al Pacino was playing more Al Pacino than Jimmy Hoffa ….DeNiro and Pesci were amazing all through the film. DeNiro really portrayed a PTSD war vet turned hit man well...his emotions were stuffed so much I thought his head would explode but they didn't make him "The Joker" with over the top emotions. I thought overall it was a brilliant film as a true story and not aimed at the thriller action crowd...it was toned more like Nebraska than Scarface
