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Raging Bull

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The story of a middleweight boxer as he rises through ranks to earn his first shot at the middleweight crown. He falls in love with a gorgeous girl from the Bronx. The inability to express his feelings enters into the ring and eventually takes over his life. He eventually is sent into a downward spiral that costs him everything.
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Arguably Martin Scorsese's and Robert De Niro's finest film, Raging Bull is often painful to watch, but it's a searing, powerful work about an unsympathetic hero.

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Dean Johnson Orlando Sentinel The brutality of Raging Bull is intense, a mood Scorsese maintains consistently. And, connected with that, is the director's search for, if not beauty, then poetry, within that vivid viciousness. He succeeds in that search. Rated: 3.5/4 Oct 11, 2023 Full Review Joseph Gelmis Newsday De Niro playing La Motta in Raging Bull is beyond mere typecasting. It is an apotheosis. With La Motta as technical adviser, De Niro, an actor with a passion for authenticity, has found the ideal outlet for his singular talent. Rated: 3/4 Oct 11, 2023 Full Review Desmond Ryan Philadelphia Inquirer Even if Scorsese and De Niro have created a movie that defies categories, the sports film will never seem quite the same, and the boxing division has a new heavyweight against which past and future efforts will be measured. Oct 11, 2023 Full Review John Marriott Radio Times Scorsese effortlessly fuses top-drawer acting, pumping narrative drive and blitzkrieg camera technique to deliver a giddy, claustrophobic classic. Rated: 5/5 Aug 30, 2024 Full Review Mike Thorn Vague Visages Martin Scorsese perfects a configuration of the biopic as self-recognized fiction. Dec 12, 2023 Full Review Kenneth Turan New West/California An intensely personal piece of work made to exacting specifications by a team of perfectionists. The result is like the man it portrays -- undeniably powerful and distinctive but not especially pleasant, an inspirer of awe but not affection. Oct 11, 2023 Full Review Read all reviews

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Byron H 4/4 Martin Scorsese's masterpiece. If it were shot in color it does NOT have a lasting impact on cinema 🎥 the black and white makes an astronomical difference. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 06/23/25 Full Review Garrett B Though it has solid performances and great cinematography, the plot felt muddled, the pacing was slow, and the characters were unlikeable. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 06/18/25 Full Review Larry P This might be the most overrated sports movie ever produced. Jake LaMotta wasn't a likeable guy, and neither is Robert DeNiro portraying him. Actually, no one in the film is likable. This downbeat, downtrodden miserable picture is so bad, the neighborhood gangland hood, an out-of-character turn for Nicholas Colasanto, is the only semblance of life in it. Actually, I would've much preferred a film based on Colasanto's character, and his viewpoint of LaMotta rather than trying to elevate a criminal like LaMotta. That would've been far more interesting. It never ceases to amaze me the countless columnists who rate this a great sports film that couldn't tell you anything about Jake LaMotta's career, his jail time, or his trainwreck of a personal life before they saw this picture. LaMotta is one of the guys who nearly finished the sport of professional boxing, before Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) single-handedly rescued it in 1963. Couldn't Martin Scorsese finish a film just once in under two hours? If you can sit through this entire picture, you're tougher than LaMatta was, and he was a world champion boxer. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 06/14/25 Full Review Frans B Masterpiece, just might be Scorsese's finest. Brutal, violent and obviously very authentic portrayal of character by whole cast. Brilliantly produced and directed. Timeless classic, can imagine what it must have been like when released, shocker. Must see, for sure Rated 5 out of 5 stars 06/07/25 Full Review Fantasia 2 Martin Scoressce's masterpiece and cinematographic brutal . This movie is really well done the part I don't like is the time where Jack get retired and the pace becomes slow . This is movie ranks the place where Martin Scoressce's masterpiece are like Taxi driver , Good fellas , Irishman , Casino and The departed . Robert de Niro is great at acting have even 9 Oscar nominations and won 2 including this movie . It is a 8.5 /10 , it is also rated 8.1/10 on IMDB and 90/100 on Metascore . Martin Scoressce is the greatest director in modern era surpassing Spielberg and Tarantino . A really good movie . Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 03/17/25 Full Review Ricardo B Dirigido por Martin Scorsese — mesmo diretor de alguns dos meus filmes preferidos, como "Taxi Driver" (1976), "Os Bons Companheiros" (1990) e "O Lobo de Wall Street" (2013) — essa é uma cinebiografia que me cativou, principalmente, pelo estilo visual cru e realista, o que nos passa a impressão de realmente estarmos não apenas assistindo a vida de uma mente conturbada e problemática, mas até invadindo sua intimidade e privacidade. Além disso, marcado por uma espetacular atuação de Rober De Niro, que some, literalmente, no papel do lendário boxeador ítalo-americano Jake LaMotta, o filme é um profundo e instigante estudo de personagem sobre um homem cujas mente e alma conhecem nada al… Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/16/25 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis The story of a middleweight boxer as he rises through ranks to earn his first shot at the middleweight crown. He falls in love with a gorgeous girl from the Bronx. The inability to express his feelings enters into the ring and eventually takes over his life. He eventually is sent into a downward spiral that costs him everything.
Director
Martin Scorsese
Producer
Robert Chartoff, Irwin Winkler
Screenwriter
Jake LaMotta, Joseph Carter, Peter Savage, Paul Schrader, Mardik Martin
Distributor
United Artists
Production Co
United Artists, Chartoff-Winkler Productions
Rating
R
Genre
Biography, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jan 1, 1980, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 25, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$87.3K
Runtime
2h 8m
Sound Mix
Surround, Dolby Stereo
Aspect Ratio
Flat (1.85:1)
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