Deniro And Scorcese Deliver A Knockout

Rating: 9/10 (12 June 2009)

Marty has always been a director whose films involved the evolution or down fall of a man, whether it be Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver, Jesus in The Last Temptation Of Christ or Billy Costigan in The Departed. All of these films and characters have one common theme and that is the character and essence of humanity. Cinematically Raging Bull is a brilliant film that works in all the right ways and pushes all the right emotional buttons. Robert Deniro as always was phenomenal and I also have to give props to Joe Pesci who actually plays a likable character in this one. The movie is in Black and White and that gives it a very gritty almost Noir feel which I think fits perfectly. Anyway give the film a watch and you will not only be entertained you will be moved.