“Mean Streets” could also be called “Boring Streets.” The screenplay by Mardik Martin and Martin Scorsese drearily depicts the low life activities of young Italian-Americans in New York’s Little Italy. Robert De Niro plays a small time hood who gets in over his head in debt to a loan shark. “Mean Streets” is basically a cheap version of last year’s “The Godfather.”
The film propelled stars Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel to prominence, not to mention Scorsese, who did a sloppy job at directing and writing in this early career effort. The leads’ performances are good enough, ditto for co-stars David Proval, Amy Robinson, Richard Romanus, Cesare Danova, David Carradine, Robert Carradine, and Martin Scorsese as Jimmy Shorts.
The unwatchable “Mean Streets” was a modest success in theatrical release for Taplin-Perry-Scorsese Productions and Warner Bros. Pictures.
Mean Streets (1973)
cinema
My Review
“Mean Streets” could also be called “Boring Streets.” The screenplay by Mardik Martin and Martin Scorsese drearily depicts the low life activities of young Italian-Americans in New York’s Little Italy. Robert De Niro plays a small time hood who gets in over his head in debt to a loan shark. “Mean Streets” is basically a cheap version of last year’s “The Godfather.”
The film propelled stars Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel to prominence, not to mention Scorsese, who did a sloppy job at directing and writing in this early career effort. The leads’ performances are good enough, ditto for co-stars David Proval, Amy Robinson, Richard Romanus, Cesare Danova, David Carradine, Robert Carradine, and Martin Scorsese as Jimmy Shorts.
The unwatchable “Mean Streets” was a modest success in theatrical release for Taplin-Perry-Scorsese Productions and Warner Bros. Pictures.