Should have been called Boring Bull.

Rating: 2/10 (28 February 2006)

Raging Bull is a "boxing" movie about A boxer named Jake La Motta and follows his life from 1941 to 1964. Why do I call it a "boxing" movie, because there is very little boxing in the movie. Sure there a lot of Motta's fights shown, but half of them are less than two minutes and mostly show time spent at the end, beginning, and in the corner. The other half is a few stills of the match combined with the who, when, and where. The grand total is less than 15 minutes. They don't even talk about boxing much or show Motta train. Most of the movie is about Motta's private life. That is not very interesting either. I got no emotion from the story at all. Scorsese also tried to convey that Motta and Sugar Ray Robinson were rivals. Other than them fighting a lot, that never comes across. Other problems include the blood effects and continuity of the blood. The blood squirts out in a very unrealistic fashion. When blood does get on someone, it is gone in the next shot.
Don't watch Raging Bull ever, even if it comes on TV and there is nothing else to do.