It cannot fail to inspire

Rating: 10/10 (12 February 2001)

Taxi Driver is one of the finest non-adapted films ever made (when you think, so many of the best are adapted from other sources, e.g The Godfather, Blade Runner). The acting is superb, right across the board. It is one of Martin Scorsese's masterpieces (Mean Streets and Raging Bull being the others)and when compared to other films, it gets a 10, it is unique. One of the few films to examine successfully the subject of insanity, and to have an "anti-hero" that really works. A fine creation of Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader and Robert De Niro.