De Niro I've never seen

Rating: 5/10 (28 April 2010)

Taxi Driver had Robert De Niro play a role I've never seen him play before and maybe thats why I found this film so unusual. For the first twenty minutes or so you really have no idea what is going on, and that sort of the feeling I had through out the whole film. Yah there's this crazy guy who can't sleep, and wants to kill some important political figure, and is crazy about this girl. Thats about all I got from it. Id really need to watch this film a couple of times to try and grasp the message but as of right now I have no idea where Scorsese was trying to go with it. The things that just didn't sit right with me is why he brought the girl to the porno theater. Yah he might be a crazy mentally disappeared guy, but he still should have the common sense to not take a girl to a porno film. That part just drove me crazy. The second issue I had was how the hell did he survive that ordeal when he went in to free Jodie Foster character, and if he did survive how could they let him back into civilian population. Just didn't make sense to me. There were some positives I like all the POV shots and for a color film. I thought they did a great job of lighting, and all though i didn't understand De Niro's character I though he did a great job of making a believable crazy person. All though from first impression I didn't enjoy this film I would like to watch it again and maybe more grasp the message Scorsese is trying to send.