an unpopular opinion...it is not good.

WOW...NO.

Agreed. As awesome as those films are, I much prefer The Irishman in almost every way.

I'd say no - primarily because I saw those films earlier - and this film felt like a rehash of those films in many ways. It's very possible that had this film come out prior to those films, we'd be saying that this film is his masterpiece and not vice versa. The point being.... there's a reason why some films are called classics and others are not. There's also a reason why earlier films of the same kind tend to get better scores than the later films. When something feels like a derivative of previous work, it no longer contains the same element of surprise or drama - mostly because the viewer has already seen a similar film before, so the element of amazement and surprise is gone. I do wish Scorsese was brave to venture into other film genres. Spielberg has tackled various film genres, and he made quite an impression as a director because of it - and because of the quality of those films. Scorsese is doing the same thing for which he's criticizing the superhero films (rightfully so, but.... why not lead by example?).

None of Scorsese's gangster films are in the same level as The Godfather or The Godfather: Part II. Goodfellas and Casino are a little better than The Godfather: Part III. I enjoyed Mean Streets more than The Irishman; it belongs in the The Godfather Part III level.

First, the movie was way too long and the scenes became repetitious when we get to the 60s. It doesn't make much sense of how Jimmy Hoffa became so powerful just because he had connections to the crime family and became their financier. Robert De Niro does a good job of playing the neutral and even tempered Irishman who rose to power throughout all this. He seems to have a good relationship with his family except for the youngest daughter, Peggy. She is smitten by Jimmy Hoffa's charisma, but she doesn't see his darker side. Aside from Sheehan and control over the teamsters' pension, I do not see how Hoffa can get away with not working with the organization as Anthony "Tony Pro" Provenzano does. I mean I get the differences between the two teamsters men, but Hoffa should have his own men besides Sheehan if he is to stand up to the mob bosses, Tony Salerno, and Tony Pro. I suppose he does, but we do not get enough screen time with Hoffa and his men to get the feeling he has power even though he went to prison and has gotten out. At the end, we find Sheehan didn't really have a close relationship with his daughters. They knew he would overreact. Only Peggy was more sensitive and couldn't stay with him. Not much sense to this movie to explain their vision of history.