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Rating: 9/10 (19 May 2004)

Can't say what hasn't been said...: In my opinion, this is De Niro's best performance. Unfortunately for me, everything that can be said about this movie has already been said, so I will simply say why I enjoy it. Apart from De Niro's performance, the violence is tackled well, without being glorified (remembering Bickle's reason for it), but without seeming over the top. Insomnia has never been more perfectly shown, and the imagery of the sleazy New York night life is gruesomely bleak. Unlike many films which try to bleak, or depressing for ninety minutes, then shove a twisty, happy ending in our faces, Taxi Driver leaves us with an ambiguous conclusion. Bickle is psychotic, which may or may not be his fault, and that does not matter. We do not know what is future will be. (If he survives that is, the final scenes may be a dream sequence)