Product: Mean Streets (1973)
Rating: 2.0
PHONEY AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MOVIE
Nerd Score Sleazy would like everybody to think he actually grew up tough in NYC----though this allegedly autobiographical junk was written by somebody else AND rips off scenes from lots of other movies.Keitel with his hand over the fire was ripped off from "Lawrence of Arabia," for one thing.And, Deniro is annoying----a lot of Deniro performances in 70s movies are annoying, which is why he only really became known to a mass audience with his later comedies.Deniro getting shot at the end is the best part---cause Deniro and his character are so annoying he deserved getting shot in the movie.This movie was a big influence on Hong Kong action movies, and Hong Kong action movies aren't exactly known for their realism.