10 God-Awful Scenes In Otherwise Perfect Movies

10. De Niro's Fight Scene Doesn't Turn Back The Clock - The Irishman

The de-ageing technology on show throughout Martin Scorsese's 2019 gangster epic The Irishman is up there with some of the best the movie industry has unleashed to date.

However, for every utterly convincing moment of Robert De Niro and co. seemingly being chucked into a time machine while the cameras were rolling, there were those few beats where all the tech in the world couldn't paper over the fact that these were all stars very much in their seventies.

Specifically, the jarring scene that sees De Niro's Frank Sheeran beat the crap out of a shopkeeper for shoving his daughter is enough to take anyone out of the gripping tale.

And while the quick beatdown had clearly been blocked in a way that wouldn't force the septuagenarian to overexert himself, the resulting awkward kicks, stomps, and attempts to stay balanced felt like the equivalent of watching your grandfather attempting to roll back the clock with a VR headset on.

The surreal pavement battering is soon forgot about and it's easy enough to slip right back into the modern classic. But few would argue with this being the absolute worst element of the 209-minute saga.