tonyisknoakh Glad Kognny Boy got what hd seserved in the end. Just wonder why he got help so long time when acting the way he did. Also wonder why he the wanna kill him and loose the money he owed. Shitty and disgusting movie where the filthy pkaces and nonsense dialogues is all over...everyehere. Must been made in like a month.

Bella Mean Streets (1973) is a Crime/Drama/Thriller directed and written by Martin Scorsese. Like Scorsese other films Mean Streets is a marvel from start to finish. Robert De Niro is the leading actor of the film. His character is 'Johnny Boy.' This movie is about a man who is determined to work his way up the ranks in a local mob. This movie takes place in New York, which is apparent because the cast has New York accents. To me, it sounds like the accents we are hearing from the cast are Boston accents.The music is excellent. It reminds me of carnival music or theatre music because it is so loud, upbeat, and exciting. The lighting is amazing and it adds to the mood of the script. Even though many scenes are filmed in dark rooms, the actor's expressions are clear as day. The acting is remarkable and will make you feel as if you are actually there. I really loved the actors, their accents, and the banter and chemistry between them. If you have two hours to spare and want to watch a crime drama thriller set in New York in the 70s, you should watch this movie.

xtian_durden Young into his career – only his third film – Scorsese was already in control of his maturing talent, his signature style was now on full display, delivering an absorbing portrait of Italian-American life of crime and redemption in the streets of New York (although most of the film was actually shot in Los Angeles).This force of nature of a film is powered by the outstanding cast, namely Keitel who plays a character which seems like an extension of the boy he played six years earlier in "Who's That Knocking at My Door", and De Niro in his unforgettable first role in a Scorsese film, playing Keitel's self-destructive mook of a cousin, Johnny Boy.Scorsese owed a lot of his gritty filmmaking style to directors such as John Cassavetes, but there are no films like "Mean Streets" before – it became the blueprint for modern movies. In 1967, he used contemporary music as a film soundtrack as opposed to a traditional score, an unheard of practice at that time and even before "Easy Rider" popularized that notion, it had since become a staple for many modern movies, here he used it again more effectively."Mean Streets" is rough around the edges, with bloody violence soaked in pop music – the antithesis of Coppola's glamorous gangster epic – and an early masterpiece from a director who will go on to make more.

ssochet The negative reviews here ignore some basic things. It's all about context. This is not only a great film, it is one of the greatest because of its originality at the time. The use of music to not only highlight but to accentuate, going way beyond Easy Rider. The plot... OK... I get it, the story line is thin. But so what? It's character driven to the max. And finally, this was not Dinero's film at all. It was pure and simple Harvey Keitel. He carried the film in every scene. And Scorcese's eye caught it all brilliantly. A 10 out of 10.