Taxi Driver is an unsettling masterpiece about loneliness

Rating: 10/10 (18 November 2008)

When one watches Taxi Driver, one has to be prepared for a story that is extremely disturbing, extremely depressing, and yet, at the same time, extremely breath-taking (most disturbing/depressing films are breath-taking). Robert De Niro's performance as a hardened Vietnam War Veteran is the best performance in the actor's career. Martin Scorsese's direction is somewhat dreamlike in it's depiction of a sociopathic mind at it's breaking point. Bernard Hermann adds to the dreamy visuals of the film with a very eerie jazz-like kind of score that stirs as well as unsettles. Taxi Driver is one of the greatest films ever made and is in my top 10. TOP 10 Psycho The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Pulp Fiction Taxi Driver The Wild Bunch No Country for Old Men Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Fist of Fury Shogun Assassin Bullitt