One of THE great films of all time

Rating: 10/10 (10 November 2002)

I'm going to keep this short seeing as I cannot do the justice to this masterpiece it deserves. For the best essay on the film, I suggest you go to www.suntimes.com/ebert and find it in "The Great Movies". I will say that this is one of the few movies I have ever seen that has so completely sucked me in upon viewing. I don't think I blinked during the whole thing. The pathetic Travis Bickle, a Vietnam War vet with a scarred mental state, is a loner who decides "if all I'm gonna do is ride around nights, I might as well get paid". The movie then sucks you into his descent from a maladjusted sociopath to a full-on homicidal maniac. The climax of the film might be the most brutally violent in screen history-but it makes sense because the entire film has been leading to the moment. Featuring Robert De Niro in one of THE performances in the film lexicon, "Taxi Driver" is a movie that will always have a place reserved only for it in history.