Review of Raging Bull (1980) by Rhett R — 27 Apr 2013

After Taxi Driver Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro team up again to bring us another cinematic masterpiece. Raging Bull is yet another masterpiece by director Martin Scorsese, everything is done flawlessly in my eyes.

Two of Scorsese's previous writers, Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver) and Mardik Martin (Mean Streets), write the movie's script and it truly is a brilliant script. The story is truly remarkable, the dialogue is fantastic, and the characters are just so realistic and that's one of the main reasons why the story works.

One of the reasons why the story is so effective is because it's grounded in reality, you could believe this could happen and that works out for the best because this story actually did happen. Scorsese does another brilliant job at directing this movie, the one thing Scorsese does the best is directing the actors because all his movie's are character driven and he always manages to get his actors to give incredible performances.

Robert De Niro gives a spectacular performance as Jake LaMotta and is one of the best performances of his career. The supporting cast is fantastic which includes great performances from Joe Pesci and Cathy Moriarty.

One thing that I find very cool about this movie is that it's shot almost entirely in black and white and I thought that added a lot of the realism in the movie. The cinematography was just so beautiful and unique because it was shot in black and white, plus the boxing scenes in this movie were well filmed and choreographed.

One last thing, the score to this movie is just brilliant and beautiful. Overall Raging Bull is a marvelous film and is yet another Scorsese classic.