Martin Scorsese the scene stealer

Rating: 4/10 (5 May 2020)

SYNOPSIS:
Travis (Robert De Niro) is a nighttime taxi driver in New York City who little by little gets driven to the point of violence.
REVIEW:
Maybe I watched the wrong film, but I don't see the draw with this one. I know it's a classic and possibly I'm the only one with this stance on this film, but I wouldn't just say the writing is okay, I would say the writing is bad. That's constructive criticism if I've ever heard it... All joking aside, I do believe this was poorly written, because of how much I didn't care for anybody in this film. I feel I should at least care about what the main character is feeling or doing, but I don't. The whole sequence of events with Betsy (Cybill Shepherd) made no sense to me and I didn't believe any of it. I don't know if she was trying to get something out of him or if she was somehow actually attractive to this guy. Then Iris (Jodie Foster) was a really weird character that was confusing. The acting was fine. Not De Niros best, not Fosters best. The standout for me was the whole scene with Martin Scorsese. He had the best moment by far and in the scene I also really like De Niros subtlety in that scene as you slowly start to see the monster rise.
To close this out, maybe I watched the wrong film or maybe there's something the film was going for that I just wasn't picking up, but at the end of the day I was disappointed with this one. 4.2/10.