DeNiro's second best performance of all time.

Rating: 10/10 (6 February 2002)

Haunting, chilling, disturbing, and simply great film making. For a low budget film, Taxi driver delivers, and only a great director in Martin Scorsese can accomplish that. Robert DeNiro steals the show, his portrayal as a vietnam vet who slowly loses his mind due to the terrible things he witnesses day in and day out. He can't sleep, and everything seems to bother him, especially Newyork City's dark, hell on earth atmosphere which is actually the way it was back in those days. I almost felt as if i related to DeNiro's character personally in this film. I myself sometimes get so fed up with politics and drug dealers and pimps abusing young prostitutes, the crime, etc. Newyork is always exaggerated as a hopeless hell on earth in Scorsese films, but it is a very stressful place to live in and It could be depressing at times. (but i love it here too much, and will never leave) but besides that, this movie so great, DeNiro was only better in one film (the Raging Bull) in my opinion he was at his best in that movie, the way Pacino was in Scarface and the Godfather. Also, the soundtrack in this film is haunting and adds to that psychotic feeling that is going on in DeNiro's head as the movie progresses. Overall i rate this a 10 out of 10 **** 4 stars