A Great Movie

Rating: 10/10 (21 October 2006)

Taxi Driver is a great movie and definitely one of Scorsese's greatest along with Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore and Raging Bull. Also, this movie includes Robert DeNiro's finest performance outside of Raging Bull.
Taxi Driver is a wonderful movie about man as he deals with his loneliness. Once again Scorsese decides to follow his format of choosing a movie with an interesting character to see how that character interacts with not only others but his surroundings as well. Throughout the entire movie the audience is hanging on to every one of DeNiro's actions.
Scorsese provides great direction for this movie with interesting cuts, slow motion, and scenes of the sleaze and smut of the inner city. Note especially how the final gun fight is shot and the scene where DeNiro's character is talking on the phone and the camera pans over to the empty, lonely hallway. Paul Schrader's excellent screenplay is also added to the mix providing some of the most interesting and enthralling dialogue of any movie. Just simple scenes are brightened by the conversations that Schrader has written. This is all capped off by Robert DeNiro's frighteningly real portrayal of a man who is lashes out at the "scum" on the streets.
Overall, a great movie and one of my personal favorites. The themes in this movie speaks to everyone to some extent and is definitely worth at least renting. You may not be a fan of Robert DeNiro or Martin Scorsese but you should still give this movie a try.