A real KO of a movie

Rating: 9/10 (18 May 2019)

In possibly the greatest true boxing film ever made we get the rise and eventual fall of Jack La Motta, played by Robert De Niro, during the 1940s and 1950s. Jack La Motta is a bad guy, and I'm glad the movie doesn't try to romanticize his life. He was an abusive man that manipulated people with fear and violence, which is what made him a great boxer. Honestly, people nowadays need to see this movie because it has an important underlying message about toxic masculinity and being too focused on fame. The fight scenes were excessive, and could have used some restraint. If Scorsese had made Raging Bull later in his career it would have been a better film, but we wouldn't have Goodfellas or Wolf of Wall Street. In Raging Bull, we see everything that would later make Martin Scorsese one of the GOAT.