Overrated Trash

Rating: 1/10 (3 May 2019)

I'll keep this short. Script? Trash. Story? Trash. Acting? Trash.
Believability? Trash. This is a bad movie about a bad man and it has
no redeeming qualities. The script is so lame that it could have been written by a
preadolescent e.g., "Your mother sucks big fat elephant d!cks!" "I head things, Joey, I head things. I heard some things." The rest of the script consists of insipid dialogue that is as baffling as it is laughable. Then we get to the acting and story.
I will say that Joe Pesci did do some decent work here. He breathes life into his character but De Niro just has the same look on his face as he always does. That blank Taxi Driverish stare. That's what he does when he doesn't know what else to do. Anyway, to summarize this idiotic film, Jake La Motta cheats on his wife with a 15 year old girl, gets paranoid, slaps and punches out his brother and his girlfriend, feels sorry for himself. So what does he do next? He gains some weight and hits on 14 year old girls at a bar. Wow.. what a masterpiece. Have I mentioned the completely ridiculous boxing sequences? If you want a watch a fighter throw 10 left hooks in a row, you will like this movie. If you like at least a pebble of realism in a film.. stay far away from this big pile of raging bull-you know what. Abysmal.