A deep, perfectly examined example of the human mind in it's most sinister form..

Rating: 10/10 (26 May 2000)

As in all Scorsese/Deniro collaborations, they bring the best out of each other. Even Bringing out the dead could have been a good film if Deniro had played the Nicolas Cage role in his younger days. Deniro got the Oscar for Raging Bull, but he and Scorsese have never dived as deep into the mind of an unstable man as they did with Travis Bickle.
The support cast is a perfect backdrop to the seedy world Travis is revolting, particularly Harvey Keitel as the pimp Sport. Even Cybill Sheperd isn't as hammy as she has been in the past and Jodie Foster is just as electrifying as she was in Silence of the Lambs, if not better. The FBI now ask any murderers if they have a link with the film, such is its power and hypnostic influences.
The film cannot really be fully appreciated on first viewing, the plot spins you away from the study of Travis and his rejection of the world, but on second sitting the plot is entertaining but irrelevant, the psycho in front of the mirror is.
Rent it, buy it, borrow it, nick it if you have to, just make sure you see this film. TWICE! (at least)