This is a man who would not take it. This is...

Rating: 10/10 (26 June 2003)

DeNiro is at the top of his methodology in this masterpiece of american cinema. The exquisite cinematography blending with the rough, New York streets, create a buffer to what's coming.
Scorsese's best work. Paul Schrader gets a lot of credit for a charged up script. And Bernard Herman's score boils below the surface, leveling out a grueling montage of realism. F***in' brilliant! Hasn't lost any of it's relevence nearly 30 years later.