10 Great Movies With Terrible CGI

In terms of acting, directing, story structure, and editing, The Irishman is almost perfect. Sadly, the de-aging effects used for Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Al Pacino never stop getting in the way of Martin Scorsese's remarkable movie.

To make these actors look up to 50 years younger, each of them wore motion-capture sensors on their face and body. However, the final results look so awful, you'd swear the characters on screen are pure CG creations. Even when the effects look impressive, the characters don't move correctly. When we see De Niro's character in his thirties, you don't buy it since he still moves like a man in his seventies.

If this special effect was an issue in only one or two scenes, viewers would be more forgiving. But since the de-aging is noticeable throughout the entire 219 minute runtime, it stops The Irishman from being better than it should be.

The fact that there are YouTubers and freelance VFX artists who were able to create more convincing de-aging effects for these scenes without a $200 million budget makes The Irishman all the more disappointing.