By If you'd been wondering exactly what flavour of Martin Scorsese film The Irishman will be, you're very likely to be surprised.
You could probably have intuited that it's unlikely to be a giddy fist-pumping knees-up a la The Wolf of Wall Street, but you might have been expecting a riff on the taut, violent lone wolfing of Taxi Driver or the dark chicanery of Casino or Goodfellas.
You, though, are absolutely miles away - it's a slow-burn treatise on "toxic masculinity" according to one of the film's producers.
"What will surprise you is, as a Scorsese movie, it is a slower movie," Jane Rosenthal told Deadline. "It doesn't have the kind of intensity, the visual intensity, as a Casino, as a Goodfellas. It is guys looking at themselves through an older perspective."
Scorsese's film, based on I Heard You Paint Houses, Charles Brandt's book about alleged mafia hitman Frank Sheeran, features digitally de-aged versions Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and Al Pacino. The film goes beyond simply looking at the politicking and muscle-flexing of organised crimelords, Rosenthal said.
"What you do look at with something like The Irishman is the toxic masculinity, and what happens when someone chooses one family over their own nuclear family, and then tries to make repairs at the end of their lives," she went on. "What happens to particularly men who make that decision."
Sounds very ominous indeed.
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