One of the Must Sees of American Cinema

Rating: Null/10 (11 June 2004)

A few months in the life of a Viet Nam vet turned taxi driver that focuses on his rather rapid descent into madness. Icon piece from the 70s that holds up remarkably well 30 years later. A fascinating study in alienation and solitude induced madness, the irony of the countless lonely walking silently amidst the multitudes. The heavy subject matter delivered in the shape of an innovatively shot film, with extreme real dialogue, common place now, but out of the everywhere in 1976. Ranks alongside Citizen Kane as one of the great injustices of the Academy Awards.