It was until after sitting down and watching it that I realized how ambitious and great this film is, especially on its second viewing. With his fighting brother Joe (Joe Pesci) as his manager, Jake fights his way both in the ring and outside the ring, much to the dismay of some around him who would expect him to be a more respectable human being and it’s this part of him that gives him the eternal struggle to the title in his weight class and the effects both before and after that title shot.Īt first, this viewer always wondered how this movie blazed to the top of many best list when it came to a span of ten years. He wishes to be champion of the world but knows he can never make it to heavyweight. That man is Jake LaMotta (Robert De Niro) who many years earlier was a middleweight who had his own share of peaks and valleys. In glorious black and white, the story of Jake LaMotta in the wonderful hands of Martin Scorsese, gives a lot of tough and rough times but rises up above it as best he can as the fighting Raging Bull.Ī fairly big man is going down his life as he waits in this one room with his cigar in 1964. One of the films that was on most of their lists (many at the top of it) was a film that lost Best Picture to Robert Redford’s Ordinary People and told the struggle, rise and fall of a boxer who’s whole world is a fight in itself.
When the decade of the eighties finished, many critics named films that were their favorites. Plot: What’s it about? Video: How does it look? Audio: How does it sound? Supplements: What are the extras? Plot: What’s it about?
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