Raging Bull

“I don’t go down for nobody.”

7.9

1980

2h 9m

Drama

Director: Martin Scorsese

Overview

The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.

Trailer

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Cast

Jake LaMotta

Robert De Niro

Jake LaMotta

Vickie LaMotta

Cathy Moriarty

Vickie LaMotta

Joey LaMotta

Joe Pesci

Joey LaMotta

Salvy Batts

Frank Vincent

Salvy Batts

Tommy Como

Nicholas Colasanto

Tommy Como

Lenore

Theresa Saldana

Lenore

Mario

Mario Gallo

Mario

Patsy

Frank Adonis

Patsy

Guido

Joseph Bono

Guido

Toppy

Frank Topham

Toppy

Irma

Lori Anne Flax

Irma

Charlie - Man with Como

Charles Scorsese

Charlie - Man with Como

Reviews

Eky

This film marked the third reunion between Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro after “Mean Streets” and “Taxi Driver”. This time Scorsese invited Paul Schrader (‘Taxi Driver’) and Mardik Martin (‘Mean Streets’ ) to write the film script that is loosely based on La Motta’s novel. Raging Bull tells the true story based of Jack La Motta a middleweight boxer whose rage, violence and temper made him king of the ring while on the other hand destroying his life slowly. The greatest demon of all we have to fight is actually deep within all of us.

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Andres Gomez

Impressive Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci in a classical Scorsese movie.

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CinemaSerf

Sorry but I was really unimpressed with this tale of the life of legendary boxer Jake La Motta. It's based on his own book, so it can be relied upon to be authentic, but somehow this Martin Scorsese effort just fell flat for me. The usual mix of Robert De Niro (La Motta) with probably the least versatile actor I have ever seen on screen, Joe Pesci, as his brother Joey; Cathy Moriarty as his wife Vickie and an ensemble of Italian American co-stars just reminded me of a very much weaker "Midnight Cowboy" (1969). Sure, that's not about boxing - but I'm not too sure how much this is about it, either. There is precious little by way of ring action - though what there is is excellently and intensively photographed - for the most part it is more of a soap opera, backed up with loads of expletives and a bit of domestic violence that seems to have come to epitomise the attitudes this New York community have for their womenfolk. There is the usual gangland, fight-fixing, shenanigans but somehow it all comes across as remarkably sterile. I don't really rate De Niro as an actor. Like Pesci, he only really seems to have one gear; one style and it all usually involves him playing well to his own roots, armed with a ripe vocabulary and lots of angry tantrums. At times it is shot like a television movie; the black and white imagery is just too clean and pristine. It seems to be trying for a look that places it contemporaneously in the late 1940s, but instead, for me anyway, it came across more as a film out of it's time. I am certain that I am in the minority here; it played to a very full cinema the other night and received applause at the end, but I am afraid I just cannot see what all the fuss is about.

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