The Color of Money

Where Martin Scorsese took the sports movie in the direction of a dark, character driven exercise of personal exploration in Raging Bull, he takes the genre in a more conventional direction in The Color of Money. The sequel to The Hustler, made 25 years after the original, is a much more straight forward sports movie than either the sports movie Scorsese made earlier as well as the movie’s immediate predecessor. It’s a lesser, simpler exercise, but it’s still buoyed by a handful of winning p...