The Best Sports Film of All Time

Rating: 10/10 (13 April 2007)

Alright, so maybe it's The Best Sports Film I've Seen, but it's unlikely that I'll ever see a sports film, or maybe any film, with a performance as powerful as the one Robert DeNiro delivers as Jake La Motta. DeNiro delivers every single range of emotion perfectly while turning a highly unsympathetic character into a remarkably memorable figure in cinema. This also leaves out the fact that Robert DeNiro gains a ton of weight for his role as La Motta. Robert DeNiro's performance as Jake La Motta is possibly the best performance in motion picture history. It's probably Martin Scorsese's best work(meaning better than "Goodfellas"), the definitive film of the 1980's, the best sports film ever, and one of the greatest movies of all time.