Mean Streets (DVD 2005)

Mean Streets is the first Scorsese/De Niro film. It is about life on the streets of New York. Charlie and Johnny Boy two completely opposite characters in the movie eventually both get caught up in danger due to late payments. Mean Streets really shows what Scorsese is capable of and went on to do Taxi Driver and Goodfellas. It was a real boost for De Niros acting carreer as he is sublime in this film. I give it 5/5 as it truly is a cult classic up there with the best of them.

Well produced, directed and acted.
One of the best films of the past year or so
Highly recommended
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ONE OF THE FINEST SCORCESE PICTURES TOP 5 EASY!!!!!! DE NIRO AT HIS FINEST PRE 95!...........................................................................................................................................................

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DE NIROS PORTRAYAL OF THE STREETS OF NEW YORK IN THE EARLY 1970'S IS TRULY MAGNIFICENT. IT'S SCAREY, RAW AND GRITTY - BUT THE START OF DE NIROS LONG AND WONDERFUL CAREER. AND NOT TO FORGET KEITEL - HIS ACTING IS JUST AS BRILLIANT AS DE NIROS. A MUST FOR ANYONES COLLECTION. HIGHLY RECOMMEND.

I've never been to the Bronx. I live in Surrey. But Scorsese's gritty and often frightening vision of the Bronx in Mean Streets verges on the autobiographical and is incredibly believable. Launching De Niro into Hollywood, who would have thought in 1973 that a year later he would win an Oscar? His performance is electric, and Keitel is impressive also. Amy Robinson, now a producer, is quietly touching as Charlie's epileptic girlfriend.

Low on plot but high on tension and drama, this film is exhausting to watch and unforgettable.