Please don't spend money on this.

hyped garbage

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Scorsese took some risks to turn a familiar concept that is actually impossible to work on screen, or at least that what I thought. A lot of familiarity has been revealed at the first half of the third act of the movie along with some clichéd dialogue. Also, the pacing slowed down a bit at the very beginning of the third act. That being said, these flaws didn't bother me so much as the rest of the third act was brilliant!That's by no means what I expected. I thought it's kinda light comedy, but it turned out to be a very subtle dark comedy. Still consider it a more light-hearted version of Taxi Driver! Very under-appreciated, though.(8/10)

It is always difficult to find such quality works in comedy style. Robert De Niro has done a really good job. The character that he revived had almost lived and lived. It is a construct that leaves a pleasant smile, a curious person, a pleasant smile on the inside. It's a legendary movie with fiction and acting.

A great movie about television late night celebrity that stays totally & brutally under control & within the small screen context of both its subject & medium. Achingly crafted by Scorsese with DeNiro conquering both stand up & talk show personality plus an epic, transcendent performance by the late great Jerry Lewis. Lewis' performance is one for the ages! I've always enjoyed his comedy, but it was expected--even the $ two billion bucks he raised for MD Research. He did it. It's a fact.This movie deserves every consideration as a beyond honest portrayal of America's The Medium is the Message. Brilliant! Jerry Lewis will never die because of it & his honest personal accomplished portrayal. God Bless.

We have a movie that is very relaxed, is very light despite being opposed with an appealingly heavy idea, it has a very good script and great rhythm besides dialogues and scenes that remember the Scorsese style well, although it is a whole construction of A comedy movie, in moments he looks like a mafia movie. We have a script that tells the story of Rupert Pumpkin, a man who dreams of being a comedy idol, he kidnaps one of today's greatest comedians, and forces him to take part in his show. It is a constructive script, has an excellent character construction, is a growing and extremely linear script, although it splits into scenes of Rupert's imagination with reality, this may confuse a bit because Scorsese does not change the picture or any aspect that shows Being an imagination, this is good because it privileges the viewer who is more inside the film. The moral of the film is to talk a bit more about the obsession of fame, we run the risk of arrest for a successful night, it also criticizes people who idolize artists by putting them on pedestals common people. We have a dark photograph, with that gray film, it even recalls a mafia movie - not Scorsese's - but we have a touch of humor and irony, we do not have that typical Scorsese rhythm, on the contrary, a good edition, but nothing surprising . Robert De Niro does a very cool acting, he is very fluent, and he does a very good acting but very funny, he is the only one, because the secondary characters are weak. Finally, we have a good comedy movie, with jokes that do not work nowadays, but it's a very clever comedy, and it just proves that Scorsese has a gigantic scope, ranging from comedy to horror.