Taxi Driver Reviews and Ratings



  • August 16, 2009
    i seen this movie a long time ago, it has allot of voilence in it and blood in a few parts. actor rober Dinero street vigalanti saves young actor Jodie Foster playing the role of 13 year old prostitute, Deniro faces her slimy pimp and kills him. this occurs in many inner cities s...( read more)till to this day.
  • August 14, 2009
    Look at me not giving it 5 stars. My reviews are so controversial.
  • August 12, 2009
    A true, entertaining classic.
  • August 11, 2009
    robert de niro was his best performence ever
  • August 7, 2009
    NO WORDS NEEDED ONE OF THE ALL TIME GREATS
  • August 6, 2009
    OMG how come i didnt see that movie:@:@:@
  • August 5, 2009
    Outstanding film. One of Scorsese's best and the second best film of 1976. The story is amazing when it describes how New York is and how the people are. The acting by De Niro, Foster and Keitel are incredible and is one of the best performances of their careers. This film also h...( read more)ad one of the most creative endings, is it real or was it a dream, if it was real how will Bickle act in the future?
  • August 5, 2009
    Maybe I didn't get it, but this movie is IMHO just boring !
  • August 5, 2009
    Travis is the god of humanity! The human condition is depicted perfectly in this movie.
  • August 4, 2009
    orses's masterpiece and the sweet goodbye from Bernard Herrmann. Forget De Niro and 'You talking to me?', this is a moral tale of great complexity and subtlety. THe images oscillate infuriatingly between crude objectivity and poetic subjectivity... and Cybil Shepherd is fabulous.
  • August 4, 2009
    I was too young when I saw this, I'll probably need to see this again to give it the review it deserves.
  • August 2, 2009
    Ok film, nothing special though.
  • August 1, 2009
    Tá mais pra uma fantasia do escritor mesmo do que para algo real. É como pudesse colocar em prática os pensamentos de justiça olho por olho das pessoas sem cultura que vivem nas cidades grandes.

    Mas eu realmente esperava mais desse filme
  • July 30, 2009
    Incredible cast and direction, but it's De Niro's movie, clearly. He's amazing in every scene and builds this incredibly intense character.
  • July 27, 2009
    Clearly from a different era. Also, I'm not quite sure what to make of the epilogue.
  • July 25, 2009
    Finally got to see it and im unimpressed.
  • July 24, 2009
    "Listen you fuckers, you screwheads. Here´s a man who would not take it anymore. A man who stood up against the scum, the cunts, the dogs, the filth, the shit, here is someone who stood up. Here is (...) You´re dead!"
  • July 24, 2009
    tell me if there was a flaw, because i must have missed it.
  • July 24, 2009
    one of my favorite movies of all times...hey, you talkin to me!
  • July 23, 2009
    ALL TIME CLASSIC,
    I HAVE THIS ON BLUE RAY
  • July 22, 2009
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  • July 18, 2009
    uma incógnita, por enquanto.
  • July 16, 2009
    Brilliant is all I can say! Robert de Niro is fantastic and gives one of the best performances I have seen im act, top film that I will watch again and again!
  • July 15, 2009
    DeNiro is brilliant and painful to watch, great performance, great film. hard to do this one justice with words
  • July 15, 2009
    De Niro at his finest!!!!!!!!
  • July 7, 2009
    u talkin a me ?? lol
  • July 7, 2009
    Robert DeNiro WAS this movie. He was excellent in the role - it's hard to imagine anyone else doing it with the same effect.
  • July 5, 2009
    Yeah ! Own it and gonna see it !
  • July 5, 2009
    Shocking. A powerhouse performance is given by Robert De Niro. One of the finest I'll ever see, for sure...
  • July 3, 2009
    A classic of its time.
  • July 2, 2009
    Simply classic. Scorsese's greatest work with De Niro, De Niro's greatest performance with Scorsese. A violent realistic psychological film. Paul Schrader created one of the most violently famous villain in writing history. De Niro defines loneliness in Travis Bickle's life in th...( read more)e street, in his apartment and in his cab; he truly became the character he portrayed. Such a powerful style of Scorsese and a cunning performance from De Niro made this film a favorite of mine.
  • July 1, 2009
    I think someone should just take this city and just... just flush it down the fuckin' toilet.
  • July 1, 2009
    THIS COUNTRY CAN MAKE YOU NUTS. WATCH IT
  • June 28, 2009
    This is a masterpiece... just art... i havent seen "Raging Bull" yet...
  • June 27, 2009
    Pending Review
  • June 26, 2009
    Own it on Laser Disc
  • June 26, 2009
    GREAT ACTORS GREAT DIRECTOR GREAT MOVIE
  • June 26, 2009
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Country: USA
    Genre: Drama / Thriller
    Length: 113 min


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    Travis Bickle (De Niro), who claims to be an honorably discharged Marine (it is implied that he is a Vietnam Veteran) is a lonely and depressed young man of 26. His origins are unknown. He sends his parents cards, lying about his life and saying he works with the Secret Service. He settles in Manhattan where he becomes a night time taxi driver due to chronic insomnia.[1] Bickle spends his restless days in seedy porn theaters and works 12 or 14 hour shifts during the evening and night time hours carrying passengers among all five boroughs of New York City.

    Bickle becomes interested in Betsy (Cybill Shepherd), a campaign volunteer for New York Senator Charles Palantine, who is running for the presidential nomination and is promising dramatic social change. She is initially intrigued by Bickle and agrees to a date with him after he flirts with her over coffee and sympathizes with her own apparent loneliness. She compares him to a character in the Kris Kristofferson song "The Pilgrim." On their date, however, Bickle is clueless about how to treat a woman and thinks it would be a good idea to take her to a Swedish sex education film (Language of Love). Offended, she leaves him and takes a taxi home alone. The next day he tries to reconcile with Betsy, phoning her and sending her flowers, but all of his attempts are in vain.[1]

    Rejected and depressed, Bickle's thoughts begin to turn violent. Disgusted by the petty street crime (especially prostitution) that he witnesses while driving through the city, he now finds a focus for his frustration and begins a program of intense physical training. He buys a number of pistols from an illegal dealer (Steven Prince) and practices a menacing speech in the mirror, while pulling out a pistol that he attached to a home-made sliding action holster on his right arm ("You talkin' to me?"). He develops an ominously intense interest in Senator Palantine's public appearances and it seems that he somehow blames the presidential hopeful for his own failure at wooing Betsy and maybe hopes to include her boss in his growing list of targets. In an accidental warm-up, Bickle randomly walks into a robbery in a run-down grocery and shoots the robber (Nat Grant) in the face; adding to the bizarre violence, the grocery owner (Victor Argo) encourages Bickle (who has no permit for his guns) to flee the scene and then proceeds to club the near-dead stickup man with a steel pole.

    Bickle is revolted by what he considers the moral decay around him. One night while on shift, Iris (Jodie Foster), a 12-year-old child prostitute, gets in his cab, attempting to escape her pimp.[1] Shocked by the occurrence Bickle fails to drive off and the pimp, "Sport" (Harvey Keitel), reaches the cab. Sport gives Bickle a crumpled twenty dollar bill, which haunts Travis with the memory of his failure to help. Later seeing Iris on the street he pays for her time, although he does not have sex with her and instead tries to convince her to leave this way of life behind. The next day, they meet for breakfast and Bickle becomes obsessed with saving this naïve child-woman who thinks hanging out with hookers, pimps and drug dealers is more "hip" than dating young boys and going to school.

    Any lingering doubt in the viewer's mind about Bickle's sanity is obliterated when he is suddenly and shockingly shown to be sporting a crude Mohawk haircut at a public rally in which he actually attempts to assassinate Senator Palantine. He is spotted by Secret Service men and flees.[1] Bickle returns to his apartment, then drives to "Alphabet City" (an area of New York's Lower East side consisting of Avenues A through E) where he shoots Sport, before storming into the brothel and killing the bouncer, Sport (who has followed Bickle), and Iris' mafioso customer. He then calmly tries repeatedly to fire a bullet into his own head from under his chin but all the weapons are empty so he resigns himself to resting on a convenient sofa until police arrive on the scene of mayhem and carnage.

    A brief epilogue shows Bickle recuperating from the incident. He has received a handwritten letter from Iris' parents who thank him for saving their daughter, and the media hails him as a hero for saving her as well.[1] Bickle blithely returns to his job, where one night one of his fares happens to be Betsy. She comments about his saving of Iris and Bickle's own media fame, yet Bickle denies being any sort of hero. He drops her off without charging her. As he is driving off, he gets a strange look on his face and adjusts his cab's rear view mirror, giving the impression that his irrationality is about to break through again.
  • June 26, 2009
  • June 24, 2009
    i wasn't quite as impressed as most by this film, it was okay.
  • June 22, 2009
    Not particularly amazing...
  • June 21, 2009
    I like it, i like it
  • June 18, 2009
    An unparalleled portrait of loneliness, Taxi Driver is also one of the finest character studies ever put to film. Martin Scorsese is the perfect director fpr this piece, because he soaks up the ugliness of the world that the main character (Travis Bickle) inhabits while also cons...( read more)tructing a meticulous examination of the man himself. Here is a man who is incessantly exposed to pornography, crime, immorality and beautiful women who torment his insecure mind from a distance. The movie's narrative perspective is tilted in favor of Travis's psychological view, so we can see the sadness of his isolation while also being terrified by the tunnel-vision aggression of his descent. Few actors can wield threatening power while also drawing empathy from their audience. Robert De Niro is one of those actors, and his exploration of Travis Bickle is fully deserving of its spot as one of the iconic American performances. Here is "God's lonely man", a bitter and delusional man lost in the crowds seething through New York. His world is dark and murky, potently underlined by Bernard Herrmann's jazzy score and Michael Chapman's documentary-esque cinematography. The movie inevitably ends in violence, and Travis's killing spree is ferocious in execution. However, the performances and writing are so phenomenal that it is the build-up we remember first and foremost.
  • June 13, 2009
    No matter what wars are going on, what the neighbours are screaming about next store, how many kids Sally Struthers pleads on behalf of, at the end of the day the media (movies, TV, books, etc.) more often than not present us with a candy-coated view of the world where in the end...( read more) everything turns out right. John Boy gets his goodnights in, the Tanners of Full House get their hugs and the boy and the girl live happily ever after. Happy endings are a good way to feel good, but the sheer percentage of happy endings as opposed to the blur of reality is far too great. Perhaps that's why Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver is so frightening. It's got a happy ending of sorts, but the root of the happiness is deeply frightening.

    Made at a time when the world was skeptical and the powers that be were deemed untrustworthy, Taxi Driver resonates today as much as it did upon its initial release. The film focuses on a loner New York cabbie named Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro in one of his career-defining roles). Travis struggles to make any real friends, even failing to really get along with his coworkers over mid-shift coffee.

    Through Travis' eyes, Scorsese shows New York as an urban hell filled with drugs, pimps, weapons and politicians. This is established in the opening credits in a famous shot in which Travis' taxi emerges from a plume of steam that symbolizes the underworld of below.

    Travis is a Vietnam veteran who is unsure as to where to go with his life. All around him is human vermin and scum, surely not what he went to fight for. He is also alone in the world. He's shown with acquaintances, but there's never any sense of friendship until the end of the film, and even that "friendship" could be viewed as more familial than one of kinship.

    Looking at the world through a lens of trouble and disappointment, Travis is blind to love. When he lands a date with Betsy (Cybill Shepherd), a campaign organizer for a presidential hopeful, he takes her to a porno film their first time out. Amid the predictable fallout, Travis genuinely sees nothing wrong with his choice in date movies thinking that sex equaled love and vice versa. He has no concept on how to maintain a relationship. This, in part, allows Travis to become the violent anti-hero that he goes on to become later in the film. Because of his disconnect he isn't 'normal' and therefore Travis can go and commit murder and be admired for doing so. If he were your average guy in a suit, murder would not be so easy, even if it were to an abusive pimp who farms out young teenagers.

    Travis' motives are always pure. He simply wants a world filled with good. And just like he was willing to go to war earlier in his life on foreign soil, Travis is willing to fight on the streets of his homeland against enemies that aren't so easily identified. Travis is a soldier fighting the good fight.

    Taxi Driver is a grimy film that perfectly reflects its grimy subject matter. Paul Shrader's script combined with Scorsese's direction and topped off by De Niro's performance makes Travis Bickle one of film's most complex characters. When you talk about super heroes, he truly is one minus the tights and powers. This is a violent film that should be nothing less. Travis' world is an ugly place so what we see shouldn't be anything but.

    When Scorsese made Taxi Driver, he was still avoiding the glitz and glamour of a big-budget Hollywood production. Even if he was now in the spotlight, Taxi Driver maintains a gritty feel that was necessary for it to have any impact.

    The fact that this film is as applicable today as it was three decades ago is a sad testament that it is impossible for one man to make all the difference in the world. Although I don't think Scorsese meant for Taxi Driver to be a call to arms for would-be vigilantes around the world, it should be seen as an eye-opener - something that makes you more aware and educates about the sad reality of some people's lives.
  • June 11, 2009
    Martin Scorsese's masterpiece. Taxi Driver is a violent, compelling, and slightly strange character study of a bizzare man. It tells the story of mentally unstable Vietnam war veteran who works as a nighttime taxi driver in a city that constantly feeds his hunger to violently las...( read more)h out. When he meets a teenage prostitute, he risks everything to save her. This film is definitely unique. I dont think ive ever seen or heard of anything quite like it. Taxi Driver is one of those rare films you watch for the first time and cant stop thinking about after. It leaves an everlasting impact on you and burns its way into your psyche while you're watching it. Taxi Driver is an intense cinematic experience and one of the greatest films I have ever seen. Robert De Niro is spectacular. He is so breathtaking in this film. A young Jodie Foster is wonderful as well.

    Martin Scorsese is a filmmaker with a god given talent. The guy can make a movie like no other director in cinematic history. Scorsese is a cinematic legend and one of the worlds greatest directors. Taxi Driver is a powerful, compelling, and intense film.
  • June 9, 2009
    A film made with such an interesting pursuits such as changing the world from man-made mistakes..,
  • June 7, 2009
    Are you talkin to me ???
    eat this fuckers lol
  • June 5, 2009
    Martin Scorsese is a genius. Travis Bickle, played by Robert De Niro, is complex as he tries to find out, what seems to be his purpose, who he is and what makes him tick. I think, i like this movie for its approach toward its characters. The supposed hero is not exactly golden bo...( read more)y material, and the heroin, the savee, she is not an angel herself. During his nightly adventures, he discovers a young prostitute, played by Jodie Foster, who is a sexual slave to a pimp , played by Harvey Keitel. He becomes a vigilante and tries to 'save' her. I found this facinating and this is what made the movie great for me- that it defies norms of acceptables.

    Fantastic screenplay!

    Betsy: You know what you remind me of?
    Travis Bickle: What?
    Betsy: That song by Kris Kristofferson.
    Travis Bickle: Who's that?
    Betsy: A songwriter. 'He's a prophet... he's a prophet and a pusher, partly truth, partly fiction. A walking contradiction.'
    Travis Bickle: [uneasily] You sayin' that about me?
    Betsy: Who else would I be talkin' about?
    Travis Bickle: I'm no pusher. I never have pushed.
    Betsy: No, no. Just the part about the contradictions. You are that.

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