Taxi Driver Reviews

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One of the best ever

We watch with a sense of disquiet as the life of Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) begins to unfold, there is a lurking menace in those eyes, in that crooked smile that you cannot put a finger on, but which is as real as the sordidness of his surroundings.

Travis is a man at the brink of losing it. He cannot sleep, he works nights and is constantly in touch with the people he thinks are scum of the earth.

He alienates the two women he encounters in the movie, the political campaigner and the child prostitute. He also has a misplaced sense of heroism, the conviction of the righteousness of his own actions that is almost scary. It is this conviction that causes him to attempt to kill the presidential candidate and eventually leads to the bloody climax when he attempts to 'save' Iris from the world she inhabits.

Taxi Driver is a powerful movie, I think it works because all of us identify with Travis at some level, we have all been lonely, we have all faced rejection, we just handle it better.

Finally, Taxi Driver had some of the best people to deliver the goods, Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Harvey Keital, Martin Scorcese & Paul Scnader. It hardly ever gets better than this.

Wouldnt want this taxi driver - non event

Taxi driver seeks revenge on New York bad lads!

was looking forward to seeing this one,but was completely disappointed. The performance by Robert De niro did not live up to his usual. Really annoying music throughout.Very dated boring film with thin plotline. I fell asleep towards the end.Not good!!!

Absolutely Amazing

The famed pairing of DeNiro/Scorcese (Goodfellas, Casino, Raging Bull) provides perhaps scorcese's second best film which chronicles DeNiro as Travis Buckle, an ex-marine who becomes a Taxi Driver in new york.

Dismayed with what he finds, Travis slowly finds himself spiralling towards one goal - 'cleaning up the streets'.

Superb direction and fantastic acting from DeNiro, Jodie Foster and even Scorcese himself make this film a dark, gritty classic.

Shrader's best

This is one of Paul Shrader's best movies - written in a drunken depression, and you can tell! The "What are you lookin' at" etc etc is a bit cliched now. Overall, this is a brilliant depiction of alienation. If you have not seen this movie, rent it NOW!

Yep - its a classic

Most people over 15 will have heard of this film and its quite rightly judged as being a very key work of cinema. Camera work is perfectly judged with lighting done by an artist, little Jodi Foster as a 13 year old hooker is extremely disturbing. One of those 'must see' films to appreciate all the praise its received over the years.

taxi driver

to me all this film was a guy driving round in a cab

Why oh why

The only good point - De Niro is a genius.

Without his great acting I probably would have turned this off after 20 minutes but stayed glued in the hope it would evolve into 'one of those films to see before you die' that it is supposed to be. Unfortunately the storyline let this film down. It had such great potentially but the lack of background detail of the characters lives made it hard to have any feelings for them whether it is sympathy or anger.

Shocking....

Is there anything more to say than a WASTE OF TIME? I thought this was going to be brilliant after some of the reviews I have heard and especially the legendry sayings. I was so anxious to see it (OK maybe over exaggerated there) but this was noting but a disappointment. SHOCKING

CULT MOVIE??????????

I'm sorry if this comes as a bit of a shock to all you 'cult movie' fans out there, but I personally thought this movie was one of the most boring I have ever had to endure. It possibly gets better in the last hour, but I could not endure any more than the first 40 minutes without losing the will to live!!!!!!!!!!!!

mad guy comes back from war and wreaks havoc

simply put de niro comes back from Vietnam war a few cans short of a sixpack.

Naturally enough he pursues a pretty woman but she passes him over and so he starts shooting people.

It does not deal with why he does not merely phone the samaritans or drink himself to sleep like normal people who have had some awful experiences.

Vastly overrated and boring