Taxi Driver is one of the most overrated movies of all time and it surely hasn't aged well.

Rating: 6/10 (20 November 2015)

Taxi Driver is one of the most overrated movies of all time and it surely hasn't aged well. Yeah of course Robert De Niro plays well (he's De Niro) and of course Scorsese is a great director even in his worst movies, but what is the point of the movie? The desperate effort of a low life night taxi driver to get laid with a middle class blondie? The fact that his failure to score pushes him to picture himself as a punisher of corrupt politics? And what is so "tough" in this movie after all? That he shaves his head? I don't know if this movie seemed impressive in the 70s but it hasn't aged well at all.
Grade: C+