While the storytelling sags a little as Mean Streets enters into its final stretch, it succeeds as the first of Scorsese's grand, disturbing, music-infused crescendos, a lethal ambush scored to panicked automotive noise and Eric Clapton/Johnny Mayall and the Bluesbreakers' "Steppin' Out." If, ultimately, the math doesn't exactly add up, Mean Streets is justly valued for its visceral, concussive force, grounded in remembrances that couldn't have been made up for love or money.
Jaime N. Christley
juillet 19, 2012