Taxi Driver

Pros: Innovative Scorsese directing, DeNiro, Foster are outstanding, fantastic screenplay
Cons: Very heavy film, very grim

Martin Scorsese's hellish, nightmare depiction of New York City makes for as interesting and organic a setting as has ever been used in film. The near constant hostility and seediness portrayed make the city itself the most dangerous and off putting...

Pros: DeNiro is amazing; plot just gets better and better
Cons: In a word: Disturbing(I personally consider this a plus)

Martin Scorcese's TAXI DRIVER stands as one of the most controversial American features ever produced. It's the story of a seemingly normal man who is far from normal.

Travis Bickle (Robert DeNiro) is a Vietnam vet who can't sleep at night....

Pros: Scorsese, Schrader, Chapman, Herrmann, De Niro & Cast.
Cons: Not a Damn Thing.

The mid-1970s for America was a period where everyone got burned out by Vietnam, Watergate, and everything else. The 1960s counterculture movement had died while America, hit hard by the lost at the Vietnam War, the economy, and the authority of its own ...

Pros: Realistic, forces you to see through the characters eyes.
Cons: Can leave you with a 'heavy' or 'dark' feeling, not good for kids.

When I watch an American film from the 1970s or 1980s I really look for the ones that give us a gritty sense of reality built in. Granted, I don't remember the 1970s at all and in the 1980s I never visited the places most movies in this style are set ...

Pros: DeNiro and Scorcese
Cons: DVD version a bit grainy

I watched Taxi Driver again last night. I think this was only my fourth viewing. I rented it so my girlfriend could see it. I was surprised that she never had. I think she was getting annoyed with me. I kept saying, “This is good.” Or, “Watch this”. The...

Pros: Read the review.
Cons: The review title may raise more than a few eyebrows.

"You talkin' to me?"

Those four words, spoken by cabbie Travis Bickle, come at about the mid-point of this movie, and, for twenty-five years, they seemed to completely sum up the entire point of the movie. But they don't. The thing...

Pros: Intricate detail of character and mood; De Niro's performance; wholly original.
Cons: Some inconsistencies in the screenplay; becomes a bit too surreal.

What's great about the movies is they allow us to get to know anonymous strangers. Usually the characters we meet are likable and relatable, but "Taxi Driver" tries to rob us of the innocence we're used to with a character study of a person everyone's ...

Pros: Character development, camera work, musical score, DeNiro's acting
Cons: may be too intense and too violent for some viewers

Major Cast includes:
Robert De Niro -- Travis Bickle
Jodie Foster -- Iris
Albert Brooks -- Tom
Harvey Keitel -- Sport
Peter Boyle -- Wizard
Cybill Shepherd - Betsy
Martin Scorcese -- Passenger


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Pros: Scorsese and DeNiro are top-notch
Cons: Uncomfortably close to real life

Martin Scorsese has earned a reputation for volatile films that crawl under your skin and make you itch for days. "Mean Streets" gave us a glimpse of Scorsese's fierce talent in 1973, but it wasn't until three years later that he exploded onto...

Pros: Powerful and disturbing. DeNiro's best performance, and all too real
Cons: violent, relentless-and all too possible

There is nothing that emphasizes loneliness more than being alone in a crowd. This film was powerful, dynamic, shocking and deeply disturbing in 1976, when I lived in New York City. It accomplished two things for me. 1) I never again hailed a cab to get...

Pros: Robert De Niro, soundtrack, colors, setting, acting.
Cons: Blatantly violent, plot holes (few).

"Taxi Driver" is an unrelenting movie about one man’s quest to find a peace of mind. "Taxi Driver" is the story of how one man’s alienation and culture shock can lead to metal breakdown. Or is "Taxi Driver" an enchanting fable on how...

Pros: Deniro's magnificent performance and Scorsese's direction
Cons: none

Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinkley, and Mark David Chapman. These are three of the most notorious assassins and would-be assassins. All of them fit that mold of the so-called "lone nut". Each of them came out of obscurity to commit shocking national murders...

Pros: The general atmosphere that Scorsese effects.
Cons: The feeble attempt by Cybil Shepherd to act.

The cab in Taxi Driver seems to glide through a world of blurry amethyst, pulsing vermillion, smears of light and sound. Martin Scorscese's films are often shot in this sort of somnambulistic, bleary-eyed fashion, effecting a sense of dreamlike...

Pros: Robert De Niro's dark, intense performance, classic scenes, you name it.
Cons: Not suitable for children.

“Taxi Driver” is a film that I didn’t see until the early 90s. I was in my late teens. I happened to catch it on HBO late one night during one of my bouts of insomnia. Over the years that followed, the images from this movie haunted me. Robert De Niro...

Pros: DeNiro acts with intensity, you will not forget his performance
Cons: during the movie, you are bothered that you don’t know anything about Travis Bickle’s past

Watch this film one time and if you are not already a DeNiro fan -- you will become one.

When this movie was first released in 1976, I was too young to see it. It’s been on television a couple of times -- surely edited down to nothing -- but...