Mean streets follows the story four Italian American hoodlems who work for the lower end of the mafia as they get drunk at bars, brawl, collect payments, have sex and "catch a movie".

This movie launched scorsese into...
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Mean streets follows the story four Italian American hoodlems who work for the lower end of the mafia as they get drunk at bars, brawl, collect payments, have sex and "catch a movie".

This movie launched scorsese into internartional and critical acclaim. Though like a fine piece of cheese, he gets better with age. That's not to say that mean streets is bad. In all respect the direction is marvelous and the acting is superbly improvised (something which scorsese carried to to the rest of his career). A few things bugged me though. First off the camerawork could have been alot better. But I guess scorsese was pushing for stark realism as the films main inspiration is "Shadows". Two unforgivible annoyances would have to be the sound issues in the film and the abrupt ending. Highly reccomended.

With this movie Martin Scorsese realy shows how a cheap production can be verry enjoyable. The story is pretty good, and so is the acting. IMO THIS was DeNiro`s breakthrough. Though everything is not great, The characters where a little boring,...
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With this movie Martin Scorsese realy shows how a cheap production can be verry enjoyable. The story is pretty good, and so is the acting. IMO THIS was DeNiro`s breakthrough. Though everything is not great, The characters where a little boring, and in the end you don`t have time to get what is hapening.

Martin Scorsese frist great movie has a good story to tell and it tells it well the movie is a great one and my rating for it is 4 stars.

Good film, starring, somehow, Robert DeNiro who was just perfect for the role of this movie. Martin Scorsese directing was good too, and that makes us see the connection and chemistry that both of the artists have with each other, because this...
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Good film, starring, somehow, Robert DeNiro who was just perfect for the role of this movie. Martin Scorsese directing was good too, and that makes us see the connection and chemistry that both of the artists have with each other, because this movie was no waste of time, it was a very well done and very good movie making us look into different perspectives a lot of things. Good film.