Oh boy. I don't want to say plodding, but the storytelling here is definitely ... deliberate. Going in I knew only the basic premise, that I would be seeing another portrayal of a mob family. Robert DeNiro plays Frank, a right hand man to east coast mob families (Philadelphia, Chicago, Miami) and ultimately enters the Jimmy Hoffa circle. He is the humanized face of a contract killer, an absentee dad, a trusted confidant. And this is all good and well written and acted. I enjoyed it. And then I hit pause and saw that I had been engaged for a little over an hour... and was only 1/3 of the way through. Edit, Edit, Edit or follow in the European model and make a 3 episode limited series.
3 stars (out of 5)
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