by MGM (Video & DVD)
Sales Rank: 50307
Price: $19.98
De Niro stars in this film biography of the controversial prize fighter of the 1940s, Jake LaMotta. <b>Genre: </b>Feature Film-Drama <b>Rating: </b>R <b>Release Date: </b>6-FEB-2001 <b>Media Type: </b>DVD
Viewer Reviews I'm a boxing fan and train often but I have no idea why people like this movie. It's a story about a cocky, arrogant jerk who likes to abuse the people around him both mentally and physically. Most of the movie is of him degrading women, screaming profanities to them and hitting them. In one scene he beats his own brother badly in a jealous rage, stomping him and then slugs his own 20 year old wife. The only thing I learned from this movie is that Jake Lamotta was one horrible person. This movie does nothing for boxing. It basically just shows boxers as violent wife beaters who can take punches. Even the fight scenes do nothing to showcase the art of boxing.
