Taxi Driver

What a mad and brilliant film it is: 1,000-degree proof Seventies cinema. [30th Anniversary Release]

Forty years on, Taxi Driver remains almost impossibly perfect: it’s hard to think of another film that creates and sustains such a unique, evocative tone, of dread blended with pity, loathing, savage humour and a scuzzy edge of New York cool.

Scorsese's seductive, dreamlike imagery and Schrader's voiceover narration draw the audience into Bickle's head and reveal the world through his eyes, which see only ugliness and filth.

It hasn't aged so much as triumphantly metastasized. [20th Anniversary Release]

One of Scorsese's most influential and disturbing films on the big screen. [20th Anniversary Release]

The fact that we experience Travis’s need for an explosion viscerally, and that the explosion itself has the quality of consummation, makes Taxi Driver one of the few truly modern horror films.

The movie has an air of recent discovery, of shocked innocence about the tawdry quality of city life that is gratingly naive. The film goes most disastrously wrong when it tries to turn slice-of-life realism into full-scale melodrama.

Taxi Driver is impossibly perfect, its almost hard to believe someone on this planet could even make a film this good. The story of the main character Travis Bickle is so relatable and yet so strange like 2 sides of a twisted coin. This right here is character development and story telling at its absolute peek and not to mention the incredible world building of the whole thing, I never once felt like I was watching a movie it felt like watching someone's actual life unfold. Please watch this movie!

An average movie. Kinda enjoyed it. It's about loneliness and stuff. Not bad.

Héros ou psychopathe ? ce Travis est un personnage étrange et plein de travers… son cheminement est erratique, le produit de son environnement en quelque sorte : ancien marine (ex-Rambo ?), seul, dépressif (maniaco-dépressif ? certainement…) dans une ville violente et décadente, il passe du statut de dangereux criminel à celui de justicier ?!… Tout cela est un peu déconcertant mais en même temps, très humain. Le jeune De Niro est déjà excellent et c’est bien Jodie Foster qui tient le rôle de la petite Iris ! la musique d’Herrman très jazz contribue beaucoup à l’ambiance désabusée. Le film souffre néanmoins d’une lenteur générale et d’une torpeur excessive comme s’il était sous Prozac. La première fois que je l’ai vu, il m’avait laissé une meilleure impression, ses défauts se font plus évidents au revisionnage à dire **** un film « culte » (selon l’expression ridicule et galvaudée des bobos) donc, même si l’on ne saurait nier son originalité ou sa belle réalisation.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

I am starting to see a trend in movie reviews that mimic's restaurant reviews. I would call that trend "by the industry and for the industry". I am sure this movie broke a lot of new ground, but the story was disjointed and didn't really flow at all. Restaurant's seem to do the same thing. Food might be inventive with a bunch of flower petals artfully arranged on it will get stunning reviews by critics when everyday eaters might not see the advantage. This movie just had a feel of a collection of 'What would a functional psycho do?' stories. I have seen a lot of classic movies that I do like, so it isn't just that I hate older movies. This movie suffers from a severe case of overrated just like Citizen Kane.