Vastly Overrated

Rating: 6/10 (26 September 2006)

In theory this film should be a deep psychological study on loneliness, boredom, delusion and depression. However for me it just didn't click and the ending didn't make any sense at all, he shot two guys and was 'rewarded'. Though I understand it was not an action film but analysing one mans demise it was extremely boring and jumped from Travis being relatively sane one minute to him being absolutely nuts the next with no gradual decline. Great idea in theory but overall vastly overrated simply because it has De Niro in it who I thought was OK at best. I actually believe they should of looked far deeper into his mind and habits seeing how they gradually got worse over time. Even the famous line 'you talking to me' is actually done better in parodies than in the actual film. Overall this film has a good concept but just doesn't deliver I believe if it were to be remade it could be a top movie as the idea is fascinating.
Andrew Barbarash