Product: Mean Streets (1973)
Rating: 5.0
This one started it all
It is hard to even start a review of this classic, because there are so many highlights to address. This film is basically the precursor to many of Scorsese's other classics, such as Goodfella's, Casino, etc., as well as films by other directors, such as Tarantino. For example, I believe this is the first film to use popular music as a background to many of the scenes, and now this is seen as commonplace. The dialouge is awesome, especially between DeNiro and Keitel, and this film is really just a great period piece as a look at Italian-American life in New York's Little Italy during the early 1970's.