I did not realise this was based on a true story, of a man who is still alive even now. The performances of the characters in the film were excellent, but, I didn’t enjoy the story as much as I expected I might. It was still worth watching.
Jake La Motta is the real life character that this is based on – he’s emotionally self destructive, with a violent temper. Robert De Niro played this character – and was in fact trained in boxing by the real life Jake La Motta for this movie. Robert De Niro also took three months off to play the older (fatter) character – I wasn’t too sure if it really was the same actor later on in the movie, he had put on so much weight!
Very little of the film is in colour.
I give it 7/10.