Over-rated and boring.

Rating: Null/10 (29 April 2001)

This one failed to hold my attention span at times and had me
constantly popping into the kitchen to make a cuppa. But I
begrudgingly kept trudging back to the TV, because, after all, this is
one of those films that you're "supposed to see". Okay, so now I've
seen it. It's boring. It's got no interesting characters. Even the
prostitutes are dull. The only character with a personality was
Jodie Foster's pimp, and he gets killed off. The scenes are
over-long with too much dialogue. Granted, the film has some
interesting shots, but this is ruined by the tossy musical score.
And I just can't believe that Travis Bickle murders all those people
and is touted as a hero at the end. Surely he would have been
thrown in the slammer for years, if he did indeed survive all those
gunshot wounds. Definitely a boys film, very macho, and very
serious. Nothing a tiny bit of humour wouldn't fix.