Great Beginning, Better Middle, Poor Ending

Rating: Null/10 (24 August 2002)

When watching Taxi Driver I was absorbed into the mind of Travis Bickle (played to perfection by De Niro) a disturbed Taxi Driver. The only problem I had with the movie was the ending. The beginning and middle of the movie where Bickle encounters seedy characters that add to his rage against the "scum" of New York enable the viewer to believe the obvious. That Bickle will go on a killing spree eventually dying himself. Well, I'm not going to spoil the ending but that doesn't happen. In fact the ending in my opinion is in complete contrast to the character we were lead to believe was Travis Bickle for 3/4 of the movie. The ending was flat out punchless.