BY HANK KAPLAN
THEY set me up. All week long I had been getting phone calls telling me how great the movie was. "The acting is terrific." "See the fight scenes......the best you ever saw......go see it......just see it." I was hyped so I visited the neighborhood theater and took time out for "Raging Bull."
This is no critique but just my impression of a movie which I was led to believe was a motion picture about a famous boxer and boxing. A lingering question as I exited the theater was why Robert DeNiro, a great actor, to be sure, studied for so long the boxing style and technique of Jake LaMotta, only to depict a boxer so unlike the Bronx Bull that to identify him would be impossible; furthermore, why the fight scenes, as they were interspersed with a suddenness to make your popcorn flutter, for the most part told no part of the story. [details]
THEY set me up. All week long I had been getting phone calls telling me how great the movie was. "The acting is terrific." "See the fight scenes......the best you ever saw......go see it......just see it." I was hyped so I visited the neighborhood theater and took time out for "Raging Bull."
This is no critique but just my impression of a movie which I was led to believe was a motion picture about a famous boxer and boxing. A lingering question as I exited the theater was why Robert DeNiro, a great actor, to be sure, studied for so long the boxing style and technique of Jake LaMotta, only to depict a boxer so unlike the Bronx Bull that to identify him would be impossible; furthermore, why the fight scenes, as they were interspersed with a suddenness to make your popcorn flutter, for the most part told no part of the story. [details]
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