That's Entertainment.

Rating: 10/10 (30 August 2005)

Unbelievably emotional, brutally blunt, and acting to end all acting. This is the best boxing/sports film/biopic EVER. It is absolutely off-the-chart good. Often under-rated, and so called difficult to love. I honestly cannot see why. DeNiro goes to extreme length to add to the repulsion scale, and Scorsese makes an impact with beautiful classical scores, and black and white shots which somehow seem to be better than what it would have been like in colour. This is better than Rocky and damn provocative. Even the real Jake LaMotta said DeNiro did a better job at portraying himself than he could do. And I can believe it.
For all those who have not seen, see it. And for all those who thought it was horrific to watch, and was therefore a bad film. Watch it again properly. It is brilliant. A true classic.