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Raging Bull

1980

Martin Scorsese

Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci, Frank Vincent ...

8.1

54,870

Drama It tells the story of middleweight boxer Jake La Motta (Robert De Niro). As La Motta rises through the ranks to earn his first shot at the middleweight crown, he falls in love with Vickie (Cathy Moriarty), a gorgeous girl from his Bronx neighbourhood. Jake's inability to express his feelings pours out in the ring and eventually takes over his life in his dealings with his brother, Joey (a brilliant Joe Pesci). Irrational jealousy over ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Scorsese and Robert De Niro do a fearless job of showing us the precise feelings of their central character (...) Scorsese finds a way to visually suggest his jealousy (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Robert De Niro, electrifyingly and horribly charismatic (...) The result is operatic and mad and compelling (...) Joe Pesci is superb"	POS
United States	Ron Pennington The Hollywood Reporter	"Much of the film has an improvisational quality, which makes the story seem very real, but which is also rather dull (...) There's no denying the power and artistry of De Niro's performance (...) Technically, the film is stunning"	POS
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"[Scorsese's] most ambitious film as well as his finest. Though 'Raging Bull' has only three principal characters, it is a big film, its territory being the landscape of the soul."	POS
United Kingdom	Ian Nathan Empire	"This is not a film about boxing. This is a film about the human condition and about cinema itself (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Matthew Connolly Slant	"The film paints a claustrophobic portrait of violent compulsion, with scenes of domestic abuse made all the more clammy by a static, unblinking camera (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Michael Thomson BBC	"Every swirling camera movement, every distinctive angle, has a real reason for existing (...) The power of Scorsese is matched by the intensity of De Niro (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Joseph McBride Variety	"The boxing sequences are possibly the best ever filmed, and the film captures the intensity of a boxer's life with considerable force."	POS
United States	Kathleen Carroll New York Daily News	"La Motta remains a one-note character (...) There is no denying the emotional power of these scenes, but one wishes that Scorsese would end his Italian-American guilt trip and stop exposing mean-tempered, self-destructive characters"	NEU

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