Mean Streets

Pros: Harvey Keitel, Robert Deniro, Action
Cons: Story - what story?

Mean Streets (1973) This was Martin Scorsese's first big success that got him noticed by critics like Roger Ebert and led to Goodfellas, Casino, and other successes showing the various flavors of organized ...

Pros: An excellent, gritty Scorsese gem
Cons: none

Sin isn't paid for in the church. It's paid in the streets. It was 1973, and Martin Scors ...

Pros: Scorsese, Keitel and DeNiro
Cons: Seemed a little too long

Director Martin Scorsese was virtually unknown when he made this autobiographical 1973 film about young men struggling to live on the "mean streets" of New York's Little Italy. He compiled a cast of nobodies (including Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro), ...

Pros: Great early Scorsese, De Niro and Keitel
Cons: None really, unless you want an epic story...

Mean Streets is a part of Martin Scorsese's essential film to watch before you die. Without this movie you wouldn't have seen Taxi Driver or the similar themed Goodfellas and Casino in the nineties. After Boxcar Bertha, ...

Pros: A stirring slice-of-life character study presented in an equally stellar special edition DVD.
Cons: You'll want to buy the complete "Martin Scorsese Collection."

In this, the first of many reviews culled from the current Warner Home Video DVD release of the complete Warner Bros.-distributed works of director Martin Scorsese, I will focus on Scorsese's first real cinematic masterpiece, a personal, prolific ...

Pros: Performances, Atmosphere/Mood, Direction
Cons: Unpolished, DVD quality is fair at best

Mean Streets is an excellent film to compare to some of Martin Scorsese's later, greater films. It is not a perfect picture but shows promise. The first film to watch in juxtaposition with this one, to see how Scorsese improved as a director, is Taxi ...

Pros: De Niro
Cons: No real plot, feels more like a string of events, abrupt ending

I love Martin Scorcese, I thought "GoodFellas" and "Casino" were great movies, and Scorcese has a good feel for the screen. Naturally, I was eager to see his first installment in his underworld trilogy. The movie wasn't horrible, but it wasn't good...

Pros: the acting, writing
Cons: none

Mean Streets



"You don't make up for your sins in the church... you do it in the streets... all the rest is B$%*$*#%... and you know it"

Charlie (Harvey Keitel) wakes up from an obvious horrible dream,...

Pros: Scorcese, De Niro, & Keitel - what more could you ask for?
Cons: I still don't know what a mook is

“Mook?” The guy in the pool-hall can’t believe his ears. He’s never been so insulted in his life.
“I’m a Mook? What’s a Mook? YOU CAN’T CALL ME A MOOK!”
Blam. A fist connects with his face, and the joint erupts in a flurry of punches and kicks...