Not as good as it's cracked up to be

Rating: 10/10 (11 August 1999)

My Age: 13
Travis Bickle, played by Robert de Niro, drives a taxi cab for the night shift around New York City and grows more disgusted at the low-lifes who hang out at night. But he thinks he has found someone good. Betsy, played by Cybill Shepherd, a senator's campaign volunteer, is the new light of his life, but this light is blown out when he takes her to a porn movie on their first date. He then sees her as just like everyone else. Then he meets Iris, played by Jodie Foster, a young prostitute whom he tells to get away and go back to her parents.
This film sets up its emotional basis very well in its first 1 1/2 hours as to why Travis does what he does. It is an interesting film with a very violent and gory ending which doesn't really suit the rest of the film, but it feels right anyway. Fantastic acting adds to the film but I feel it is just too boring throughout most of its length to really be a classic or a masterpiece.
Australian Classification: R 18+
Rating: 63 out of 100