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Production Year: 1980 - Drama - Director: Martin Scorsese - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over more

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With RAGING BULL, Martin Scorsese's personal approach to filmmaking is taken to a whole new level. Shooting in a crisp black and white, Scorsese tells the story of middleweight...
more...boxer Jake La Motta, played with incredible intensity by Robert De Niro, in an Oscar-winning performance. As La Motta rises through the ranks to earn his first shot at the middleweight crown, he falls in love with Vickie (Cathy Moriarty), a gorgeous girl from his Bronx neighbourhood. Jake's inability to express his feelings pours out in the ring and eventually takes over his life in his dealings with his brother, Joey (a brilliant Joe Pesci). Irrational jealousy over Vickie, as well as an insatiable appetite, sends him into a downward spiral that costs him his title, his wife, and his relationship with Joey. As the out-of-control fighter, De Niro delivers one of the screen's most unforgettable performances. Pesci is just as intense as Joey, who finally realises that he is unable to tame his animalistic brother.


Scorsese and cinematographer Michael Chapman shoot the film with a stylish flair that fills the boxing scenes with boundless energy and adds immediacy to the endless arguments that erupt whenever Jake is outside the ring. Coupled with Thelma Schoonmaker's breakneck editing and the film's audacious sound design, said scenes are the most brutally realistic depiction of the sport the cinema has ever seen. Simply put, RAGING BULL is one of American cinema's masterworks.





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Review of Raging Bull (Wide Screen) by matt1979

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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

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06.03.2003
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Review of Raging Bull (Wide Screen) by Mel27

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

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14.05.2005
RAGING BULL (1980) [FILM ONLY REVIEW]
Review of Raging Bull (Wide Screen) by Charles_Strickland

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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21.09.2006
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Review of Raging Bull (Wide Screen) by redbull_1234

Advantages: everything
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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

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29.08.2007
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Review of Raging Bull (Wide Screen) by majidali

Advantages: based on a real story, great acting by robert deniro.
Disadvantages: none

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

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