Review – Hoffa

They do a good job of making Jack Nicholson look like Jimmy Hoffa and a great job making Jimmy Hoffa look like an asshole. The puzzling part is whether he was supposed to be the hero, some kind of half-baked anti-hero, or the villain of his own story. I’m guessing the actual goal as expressed in the pitch meeting involved adjectives such as “gritty” and “warts and all.” The result is, well, warty. I was particularly astounded by the scene in which Hoffa’s most trusted lieutenant (played by director Danny DeVito) pulls a mob hit on a deer. That was fairly typical of the rest of the production. Mildly amusing