You lookin' at me? Of course I am, Mr. DeNiro!

Rating: Null/10 (14 April 2002)

*Spoilers*
This truly is a amazing movie. I saw it for the first time yesterday on late tv just to see if the hype was what it was getting at. That Taxi Driver is a very good movie. Well it is.
What struck me firstly was the very subtle and at quite a few places very odd music. When DeNiro walk's in to the taxioffice to apply for a job you could feel the doom coming. Then we simply follow his life as a cabbie in New York, here portaied as a really rotten place - of course this is viewed through the instable vietnamveteran eyes who is on the brink of snapping.
When the very violent ending occurs (where limbs are shot off and blood poors on walls and floor - filmed very ghastly, truly more frightening than those B-horrormoives that goes direct to video) it is the first time you truly care for DeNiros character. Belived dead he soon appears again, back on the road in his cab with his little smile on his lips and it is then, at that moment I finally understood all those filmcritics that keeps mentioning this movie.
Oh, and the faboulusly famous scene where DeNiro talk's to himself in the mirror truly are one of the best moments in film I ever seen. "You talkin to me?" Yes, Mr. DeNiro, I am. Wonderful work.
9/10.