Raging Bull (Wide Screen) > Reviews

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This is not infact the best film of the 80s or indeed the 70s, it is just simply the greatest film ever made. I am not writing that on a whim, I have not just seen it and got carried away, I have seen this movie on a number of separate occasions over the years each time picking it apart, looking for faults but finding none. Hours of research have gone into this review. The film was set back int the fifties, back in the day when men were men and ... Read review

Advantages: Compelling performances
Disadvantages: Can feel a little long

This certificate 18 film is from 1980 and it's largely shot in black and white. It stars Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci and is directed by Martin Scorcese. De Niro plays 1940s boxing champion Jake La Motta. Joe Pesci plays La Motta's long-suffering brother and manager, and Cathy Moriarty plays Jake's wife. The story follows Jake's traumas and triumphs in and out of the ring. It is based on Jake's autobiography. The depiction of the rise of La Motta, ... Read review

Advantages: Great directing, sublime acting, excellently written, beautifully scored, brilliantly edited
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Martin Scorsese's RAGING BULL is a ruthlessly unsympathetic portrait of a professional boxer's beatings in and out of the ring. Based on real life boxer Jake LaMotta's memoirs, by TAXI DRIVER screenwriter Paul Schrader, I rank this brilliant film alongside that other great character study of Scorsese's as one of the most powerful pieces of cinema ever made, with another mesmerising performance from Robert De Niro, from an insanely paranoid taxi driver ... Read review

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raging bull is a film about the fighter jake lamotta. the story starts off with jake practicing standup comedy. then the film flashes back to his earlier life when he was a talented prize fighter. Jake gradually moves up in the rankings to get a title shot. Jake meets a 15 year old girl in the neighbourhood, he starts a relationship with her after his first wife leaves him. He then marries her and has children. Jakes boxing life is bright as he is ... Read review

Advantages: based on a real story, great acting by robert deniro.
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raging bull is a story of one of the greats to enter boxing. This film shows how hard it was to be a fighter in the old days. It was hard because it had great fighters like sugar ray robinson and boxing was corrupted so it was hard to get a title shot. for me this is the best boxing film ever because it is based on truth. in this film it shows robert dineros actor getting paranoid and beating up his wife. his violence helps him in the ring however ... Read review