Taxi Driver (1976)

Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver tells the story of a New York City taxi driver. The film begins with him applying to become a taxi driver and the rest of the film deals with his life as a taxi driver. For the most part, this film is rather slow-moving. Overall, I found the plot to be decent. The exploration of the protagonist's psyche could be tedious at times, but it was still worthwhile.

The protagonist in this film is played by Robert De Niro. De Niro plays a rather complex character and he plays his character fairly well. The character is rather dynamic going from a seemingly normal person early in the film to someone who appears insane by the film's end. De Niro was probably the best thing this film had.

Overall, I was not particularly impressed by this film. While the ending was reasonably exciting and leaves plenty of room for interpretation, the events leading up to the ending weren't particularly interesting to me. Having the film's main character become more and more insane as a film progresses is hardly anything new and I'm not sure this film did anything groundbreaking in that regards. The ending was rather violent for 1976's standards, but that alone doesn't guarantee a good film. This review notwithstanding, this film tends to be fairly well-regarded so it is probably worth seeing.

70/100
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UP NEXT: To be determined.

I have seen it


77/100

I think it is a bit overrated

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