"Mean Streets" - one of the first movies that Martin Scorsese had ever directed. It's the begginin of the gagsta subgenre and this movie is forming Scorsese's quintessential style of directing and writing. In his next productions we can see mastering on this concepts and improved story telling - ''Goodfellas'' (1990) and ''Casino'' (1995).
This film has casual gangsta crime style plot. It's good but not well executed. Partly it's Scorsese's fault and partly - Robert De Niro's. Robert De Niro acting is not that good - he is still too young to achive the best possible acting for his movie character.
The low movie budget downplays the cinematic. Lighting is bad however cameras and their positioning is ok, even great if we consider that the movie is from 1973.
This film has casual gangsta crime style plot. It's good but not well executed. Partly it's Scorsese's fault and partly - Robert De Niro's. Robert De Niro acting is not that good - he is still too young to achive the best possible acting for his movie character.
The low movie budget downplays the cinematic. Lighting is bad however cameras and their positioning is ok, even great if we consider that the movie is from 1973.