Very effective at showing the passage of time, and the futility of all that violence. Really nicely put together, as you'd expect from Scorsese - pacey, gorgeously shot. The CG de-aging is a little distracting at first - even when they're at their youngest, their faces feel a little beefy - but overall it's convincing and within a few minutes I was paying more attention to De Niro's eye colour than anything else.
Really, the main issue is that as a historical film, it doesn't have much of a dramatic structure, and this is not helped by the fact that De Niro is playing a guy who shows barely any emotion ever, isn't a family man, and is just a soldier who has so little individuality that he sits on both sides of the main conflict of the film without ever getting so much as a threat. In fact, Al Pacino and Stephen Graham are pretty much the only actors in the whole movie who so much as raise their voices.
Rating: Good
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