Powerful Stuff

Rating: Null/10 (3 April 2004)

When looking at the real Jake La Motta and watching De Niro portray him in the movie it's hard to believe that he is the real person. On the DVD I was shocked to even see that La Motta was still alive but he came across as a very humorous person that enjoyed life. I know he is a comedian and his job is to be humorous but he didn't seem like the La Motta we know in Raging Bull. It was funny also when the documentary starts because its cuts to him and he says `When I came out of the theatre after seeing Raging Bull I felt depressed and I asked my Ex wife Vicky was I really like that, and she said no you were worse'. To think that he couldn't get any worse than he was in the movie. Raging Bull told the story not like the rise and fall of Jake La Motta but more the fall and fall of him. Of course winning his heavy weight title was great but Scorsese looks more at his relationships with the people that love him like his brother Joey played Joe Pesci and his wife Vicky played by Cathy Moriaty.
The physical abuse which is given out in this film is more than you're usual take and it tells it so well. It's nothing like Rocky or any other boxing Biopic as it shows the human side to a boxer not the just the fighting side. It dwells in well with it's plots and has the greatest fighting scenes ever devised on film and without it being to bloody either as Scorsese shot it very artistically.
This is the movie that Scorsese deserved to win Best Director out of all his nominations and it is also the most powerful film I have ever seen.