Great but the book is better.

Rating: 10/10 (12 December 2001)

It's clear that Raging Bull is the greatest boxing movie ever made.The fight scenes are great, the directing is great and so on. But I'm reading and have nearly finished the book Raging Bull and it makes the movie recede in my mind. Don't get me wrong, Scorcese put it together quite nicely, and of course Deniro is intense. The book is better because of the way Lamotta described the fight scenes; the sweat, the noise, the feeling of winning the middle weight championship, and the feeling of going crazy was out standing. I think Scorsese is a visionnary because he shows the cruel world of boxing and what it does to a man and his pride. Plus the chemistry between Pesci and Deniro was electrifying. It is Deniro's best movie and he deserved his Oscar.