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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community Jul 17, 2001
Pros: DeNiro and Scorcese are arguably the best director/actor team in Hollywood
Cons: An incredibly violent film...definitely NOT for the faint of heart
Summary: Robert DeNiro is the consummate performer. He can take just about any character and make you believe not only in the role, but in the character's ambitions, motivations and fears.
It is, with this in mind, that I focused on Travis Bickle, the ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 13, 2013
Pros: Meticulously assembled, amazing performances all around, exceptionally violent even by today's standards
Cons: Probably slow moving for many people
Summary: Taxi Driver is many things, but at its heart it's a portrayal of a character. That character, Travis Bickle, portrayed by Robert DeNiro, is the controlling force of the film. There are a few films such as A Clockwork Orange and A Serbian Film where the ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 21, 2011
Pros: Thrilling atmosphere, strong central character, great supporting cast, great music, and intense.
Cons: Can be a little slow at times.
Summary: Yep, that's right, I think this is Martin Scorcese's best movie. Even better than Goodfellas, Casino, or Raging Bull (all fantastic movies, mind you). I first came across Taxi Driver back in December of 2006 when it was on AMC, and while I ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 26, 2011
Pros: Other than learning the history of "You talking to me?"
Cons: It's depressing, probably inaccurate, and dumb.
Summary: It's rare that I feel compelled to rate a "classic" such as this. But after suffering through this marvelous, inane travesty, I felt the need to call a spade a spade or a duck a duck! Martin Scorcese has done much better ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 10, 2010
Pros: Script, direction, acting, cinematography and so on.
Cons: Only if you don't like movies that get under your skin like a mosquito bite.
Summary: It's a line. It's one that you've doubtlessly heard many times. One that you've probably said many times. Sometime when you're on the phone with a person and they say something and you're not sure it was directed at you. So what do you say?You ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 12, 2009
Pros: Scorsese, De Niro, script, iconic, invigorating to watch
Cons: If you don't like violence or provocative storytelling...
Summary: Taxi Driver has been a film I've been dreading to review because of its cult status and how renowned it is in my movie collection. This is the Martin Scorsese film to own and the first one that has all of his wonderful compositions and ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 4, 2008
Pros: Great acting, direction, cinematography and an overall wonderful movie
Cons: none found
Summary: Directed by the great Martin Scorsese, staring Robert De Niro, Cybill Shepherd, a very young Jodie Foster and Harvey Keitel, this hard-hitting, gritty urban classic is undoubtedly one of the best movies ever made.The StoryTravis ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 15, 2008
Pros: Intricate detail of character and mood; De Niro's performance; wholly original.
Cons: Some inconsistencies in the screenplay; becomes a bit too surreal.
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 23, 2007
Pros: Realistic, forces you to see through the characters eyes.
Cons: Can leave you with a 'heavy' or 'dark' feeling, not good for kids.
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 26, 2006
Pros: Dramatic Classic, must-see at this point, great direction/acting/story
Cons: Maybe too much for the sensitive gory.
Summary: Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver (1976) has become one of the iconic landmark films of a decade filled with unique vision and story. Taxi Driver functions on many levels of character and interaction. The film follows Vietnam vet, loner on the edge, ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 25, 2005
Pros: great performances all around
Cons: not entertaining at all
Summary: Ah, "Taxi Driver". It's one of the movies I've decided to review, but I just can't figure out quite what to say about it. Well, it's certainly though-provoking, I'll give it that. It gets under the skin. It's one of those movie you spend hours, even days ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 16, 2005
Pros: So many that they all melt into one...overall excellent.
Cons: Voiceovers by De Niro occasionally pompous; Herrmann's score sometimes grating.
Summary: "Taxi Driver" is not only one of the Great Films of the '70s and of all time, but I think it's also a textbook example of how to do a movie right. Working from Paul Schrader's taut garrote of a script, Martin Scorcese crafted what may be called a perfect ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 25, 2003
Pros: Excellent Acting, Directing, and Screen Play
Cons: Not a lot of extras
Summary: This movie asks a few questions that we all (or at least I have) asked: if ya' kill the bad guys does that make you a good guy? This movie is one of my personal favorites for a reason. First off, Scorcese is one of my favorite directors. Nearly all ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 18, 2003
Pros: Deniro, Scorsese
Cons: None
Summary: If you are looking for classic movies after the Golden Age then this one nearly tops the list. This ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 5, 2003
Pros: Robert De Niro, soundtrack, colors, setting, acting.
Cons: Blatantly violent, plot holes (few).
Summary: "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 ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 5, 2003
Pros: Great Acting; Great Plot;Casting Impeccable
Cons: Very little; One must occasionally suspend his sense of reality
Summary: Mainly, this is the story of Travis Bickle; a man who seems to want to just fit in,"become a person like everyone else"; his ideals and morals are upstanding, even "square" as Iris, the young prostitute played by Jodie Foster,says.
We know ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 13, 2002
Pros: Great Acting, Very Realistic.
Cons: Gory, Sometimes Hard To Understand.
Summary: This film is one of Robert De Niro's finest. His character is a perfect example of how war can mess people up. It also gives you a realistic insight on teenage prostitution, about how openly visible it is. Jodie Foster is brilliant as the hooker Iris ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 28, 2001
Pros: DeNiro's first major film, so it's great to see how he's progressed in his career
Cons: Violence, language and a story it's hard to care about
Summary: Born in 1967, I was far too young to see Taxi Driver when it came out in theaters. But with the advent of DVDs, my filmmaker husband and I decided to rent the movie to see what all the fuss was about. It was a career maker for so many and after seeing ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 26, 2001
Pros: Powerful and disturbing. DeNiro's best performance, and all too real
Cons: violent, relentless-and all too possible
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 18, 2001
Pros: De- Niro's subtle but intense performance
Cons: cybyll shepherd..?
Summary: 'Taxi Driver' is a movie that manages to pull you through a range of different emotions about it's main character, Travis Binkle, so that by the end, you are faced with an anti-hero who you are not sure whether to love or hate.
Binkle is alone ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 29, 2001
Pros: Read the review.
Cons: The review title may raise more than a few eyebrows.
Summary: "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 ... read more
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