A great take on totality for a character

Rating: 6/10 (7 September 2014)

The movie is strong on its vivid screenplay and the acting by Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci. The screenplay is so vivid on the depiction of Jake LaMotta's behavior. The story goes on quite slow in my opinion and it looked like it didn't put enough time for the boxing scenes. the fights on the boxing scenes seemed to unrealistic for me. The sound effects sounded like something from a sixties movie. But it's quite good to include the famous element of Italian American culture of ties to the mafia. De Niro's acting is just truly superb. His facial expressions are nicely fitting just as what he did in "The King of Comedy" for comparison. He went total for this by gaining weight to make his suitable look for the older version of LaMotta.