A surprise

Rating: 8/10 (12 June 2012)

Martin Scorsese did several excellent movies and Taxi Driver is definitely one of them, although very much different.
Same for De Niro : excellent actor, including in this movie but here he plays very differently and showed me how great of an actor he is. And again, same for Jodie Foster.
The general atmosphere is well painted and allows you to go deep into the limit between madness and normality if not heroism. Everything is confused as in the mind of the hero, Travis, or as in life. You feel scared, horrified, and sympathetic at the same time all along the movie.
I did not like the killing scene because of the suddenly strange tone and colors of it but, to the contrary, I liked the ending very much.
I did not expect the movie to be like this (I thought it would me more "classic") and this surprise was a very good one...