A great screenplay breathes life to a real character

Rating: 10/10 (9 March 2005)

Keep this movie simple when watching. What you really have is a man who went to war, survived, came back to civilization but remained a soldier. Soldiers are taught to fight and protect. Travis remained a soldier when he returned as a taxi driver and saved a young girl from the streets. We call him a hero because he saved her. We call him an anti-hero because he murdered. But to Travis it's not murder, it's war. In war you find your spot, you watch and pick out your enemies, then you prepare to combat knowing that a soldier must learn to fight with one thought in his mind: fight not for survival but for the benefit of others. Travis did that.