Boring overrated movie

Rating: 4/10 (24 October 2003)

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Perhaps I missed something, but to my mind this was just a very boring movie. I totally couldn't identify with any of the characters. I think the taxi driver (Robert DeNiro) was just an uninteresting dumb, socially inapt guy who gets alienated from society. The more crazy he became, the less I understood why. You don't start playing with guns and shooting people, just because you see crime on the streets... Or perhaps you do, and slowly evolve into doing this, but then I would have liked to see him evolve emotionally. Instead we see a guy, uncapable of expressing his emotions and we are puzzled by what really goes on in his head.
Furthermore it was unclear to me what message the movies was trying to convey... It was probably about how rotten society is and about how society can drive a man crazy, but was he a hero, a victim, or just part of this crazy society? I haven't got a clue.
Anyway, this film didn't touch me emotionally whatsoever. I give it 4/10.