Rocky beat this?

Rating: 10/10 (24 April 1999)

It just goes to show (year after year, it's nothing new) that the best "man" does not always win. Let's face it, okay? Travis Bickle would have kicked Rocky Balboa's butt in a second. Onto a more artistic commentary. The writing of Taxi Driver is impeccable, as it is a very personal story from the heart and mind of the brilliant Paul Schrader. The direction, well, it's Scorcese, so do you need to know anything else? This is one of the consummate films about alienation and urban decay (as paralleled by the inner decay of DeNiro's Bickle). There have been pretenders to the throne, but anyone who knows an iota about film cannot deny (or is foolish if he or she did) that this disturbing film resides forever in the damaged soul of anyone who has ever felt the slightest bit outside of the moral and social mainstream.