Hoodlum, Who am I, Siskel & Ebert? LOL....But since you insist, here goes nothing!

For me? In my humble opinion, Mean Streets is one of the best mob pictures ever made. Many critics say that it's really not a mob movie at all. But IMO those people would be dead wrong.

Although Martin Scorcese was just a young kid himself back then, and a struggling filmmaker at that, and Mean Streets was a low-budget film, Scorcese completely nailed it! He showed the REAL daily life and antics of knockaround guys from the neighborhood aspiring to become goodfellas. And the performances by ALL those young guys, DeNiro, Keitel, Provall, Carradine, etc., etc., was outstanding and believable.

I'm not even sure the movie ever won any type of awards (they may have, or maybe not). But for sure, it has become a "cult" movie of sorts. And has grown in popularity over the years.
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Now I gotta ask you the same question...What do you think about the movie?