Best Robert De Niro performance

which one was that, Georgia? <saw Ray last night incidentally: excellent!)

Ah, yes. Now I remember another where DeNiro was a psycho baseball fan. I think that one was with Wesley Snipes. Has it been named?

Thanks, BVT, that was it.

Okay, just looked up Heat. What a combo of giants. Didn't see it though, because I hate it when my favs are bad guys.

Lightwizard wrote:

"Raging Bull," "Goodfellas" and "Godfather."

I've got to go along with that choice, although he has made the odd film or two that I thought were very poor, most notably in my opinion was Cape Fear, I thought his performance in that was mediocre, but then again I thought the film was badly made altogether, Mitchums version was superior.

Letty wrote:

Thanks, BVT, that was it.

Okay, just looked up Heat. What a combo of giants. Didn't see it though, because I hate it when my favs are bad guys.

was heat the de Niro/pacino one? where pacino killed de niro in the end?

Well, yes, "Taxi Driver" is the fourth on my list even though I enjoyed the other three performances more that Don1 also endorses.

I thought he blew it in "Cape Fear" -- too obviously over-the-top as the villain and the film had only an echo of the tension in the original. Mitchum built up the character as the movie progressed until the evil spilled over the dam and it's also one of Gregory Peck's greatest performances. De Niro broadcasted where the movie was going in the first reel. It was the nearly an aping in character as the Frankenstein monster.