dark

Rating: 8/10 (13 May 2011)

Other than Goodfellas, Casino, and The Godfather, Robert DeNiro was in a slew of mediocre acting roles like Analyze This and the Focker movies except for Taxi Driver which he did brilliantly. This was a well shot, dark, gritty, and depressing look at late night city life and how people can be seedy, disgusting, and it's down-right depressing. DeNiro does a great job of having the best intentions and then, pretty much, becoming that he despises and wants to get rid of. I believe that, without DeNiro, this would still have been a well-done artistic movie, but DeNiro does a good job of making this more than that by getting you to come down to his view and root for him, even though he's kind of crazy. It's a classic and rightfully so. So if you haven't seen it, you should.