Depressing

Rating: 9/10 (12 January 2009)

Taxi Driver is an overall boring movie. In most of its running time it's depressing, uninteresting and hard to follow. Still, I can see that it succeeds in doing what I think Scorsese wanted, to portray mental sickness. There is no doubt that he is a good director, and that a movie can be well done even without much entertainment value.
It must be said though that there was some interesting parts. The ending was good, and I think Foster did quite well as Iris. All the craziness of de Niro just made me depressed, but that's what made a great impression on me. Even though I just wanted to turn it off most of the time, the story about Travis depressed me so much that I just couldn't stop thinking about it for a long time. I couldn't sleep for many hours, just twisting my mind with thoughts of his miserable life. And that's the brilliant part. By showing us how hard life can be on someone, de Niro and Scorsese made a difference. Maybe some people got a different view on the "scum" of society by watching this movie, and that is an accomplishment.
All in all, even though I never wanna see it again, this is a good, but not great, movie. 7/10