Brilliant

Rating: 9/10 (28 June 2019)

The story of Jake La Motta, boxer and world middleweight champion.
Brilliant. Directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro, Raging Bull is far from your average boxing movie. Most boxing movies focus on the boxing, showing the main character as a hero and how they get to their inevitable success. Raging Bull on the other hand, while showing La Motta's successful career, doesn't paint him as perfect. Far from it: he is shown warts and all.
Scorsese shows quite well that what made La Motta great in the ring made him less great in his personal life. The intensity and brutality that made La Motta such a good fighter made him a less-than-perfect husband and person.
Who better then to portray an intense, complicated person than Robert De Niro. He gives a superb performance, for which he won his second (and final) Best Actor Oscar. Searingly gritty and intense.