Taxi Driver Reviews and Ratings



  • April 13, 2009
    Brilliant and a bold statement of the film industry. Superb acting, the brilliance of De Niro cannot be denied.

    The plot is original and deals with loneliness and paranoia, it also displays violence towards the violent and unconcern towards the shallow.

    Martin Scorcese did a fa...( read more)bulous job of directing and made a cult classic that has the most disturbing thematic material and probably the deepest character study ever.
  • April 12, 2009
    saw it a few years ago on cable tv, it was pretty good
  • April 10, 2009
    De Niro is absolutly AMAZING in this film!
  • April 10, 2009
    Damnnn this is scary as hell But Damn Bobby is a great actor!!!!!!
  • April 8, 2009
    Outstanding! Robert De Niro is great! What a great film all around. :)
  • April 6, 2009
    you talkin' to me...? lol
    this of my favorite film with martin scorsese, robert de niro, jodie foster, & harvey keitel. i like one of travis bickle(robert de niro's character)mohawk of his hair.

    so SUCK ON THIS...
  • April 6, 2009
    "...Are you talkin' to me?"
  • April 5, 2009
    now this is what i call masterpiece.,
    great story, great play by de niro & foster, great directing, and what a music by Bernard Herrmann.,
    its a great work of art!
    and a little touch of nice sense of humour makes it very enjoyable movie..
  • April 3, 2009
    Robert De Niro was fantastic. Great role.
  • March 31, 2009
    Good but not great. A bit drawn out with some useless scenes that add nothing to the plot.
  • March 29, 2009
    You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Then who the hell else are you talkin' to? You talkin' to me? Well, I'm the only one here. Who the fuck do you think you're talking to? Oh, yeah? Ok?"
  • March 27, 2009
    De Niro is breathtaking as the taxi driver whose downward spiral is handled with affection and grittiness. Foster is simply superb with one of the finest child acting roles to have graced the silver screen. A must-see.
  • March 25, 2009
    #4
    Scorsese's second masterpiece and DeNiro's best role.
  • March 19, 2009
    Hei u!!!! R u talking to me??? Hah??? R u talking to me??? Mr. Robert De niro obsessed with a beautiful girl & he must kill a politician to prove it....guess who's young lady here?? Yes, Jodie Foster. & u know what??!! I think i've seen Luna Maya here ( Cybill Sheperd He he he )I...( read more)ts 70's yahoooo...
  • March 17, 2009
    One of the best films of the 70's
  • March 15, 2009
    ''On every street in every city, there's a nobody who dreams of becoming a somebody.''

    A most uplifting and reassuring tagline, especially FOR the nobodys, or even, ''losers'' out there.

    Scorsese being my favourite director of all time, this is is him at his most raw and re...( read more)al.

    The one liner ''You talkin' to me?'' is so infamous that it is used in our everyday speech. Almost every person will put on the 'Robert DeNiro expression' and imitate him to themselves in the mirror atleast at some point in their life, if not, multiple. hell, even French chav Saiid does it in 'La Haine' and he's about as cultured as my left buttcheek. Every one knows it one way or another...

    As 'God's lonely man', methinks this is DeNiro at his riveting best, as well as this role being his iconic screen character, and NOT Jake LaMotta, not Noodles, not Jimmy Conway, not young Vito Corleone, hell, not even psychopathic paedophile Max Cady...but everydayman, observant, idealistic, morally ambitious and golden-hearted Travis Bickle. a random and unique name for the hero, or if you must, anti-hero...

    Travis has been horribly misinterpreted as a villain, and even made it into the 50 greatest Villains of all time by AFI! stupid Americans.

    The film title, in all its simplicity, labels his occupation. when it comes down to the elaborately detailed, personal and visually vivid voiceovers, we are reminded that he's just a Taxi Driver. an average lower-middle class choffeur.

    His obsession with weapons and being the lone ranger and idealising his own rules and commitments are only but childish. His goal is to save the 'Damsel in Distress', per se, from the 'venal' pimps and druggies. He's essentially a do-gooder in the end, in spite of the killing of three people at the end as well as the inevitable visitations to adult movies. The freaky mohawk is simply childish too, only wanting to look rebelklious and kill the baddies.

    The screenplay couldn't be better. It stays true to the entire situation.

    The sleepy jazzy score by Bernard Herrman links with Travis' frame of mind: always on the move, straightforward, and always alive. awake. wired. never-ending. The transfixing lead in to the tune proper has a prominent effect of brief psychosis, paranoia, then mysticism and eventually leading in to a stream of flowing rythm, akin to the streets of NYC.

    It FEELS like a documentary, taking us through the slums of the city and meeting new people and observing every face and mannerism on every person. The setting also echoes your typical 70's crime flick, or even a horror film (especially the dark and fulvrous Lynchian corridor with crawling pimps), but on the whole, it seems like the hero (who ironically sticks out like a sore thumb) is the one to save the day (more like the night) and brings an element of redemption to the vulnerable waste land of shadows, neon lights and the creatures of the underworld...
  • March 14, 2009
    A film that will stay with you forever.
  • March 14, 2009
    scorsese's best film..& de-niro rocks
    cult-classic,very iconic & ofcourse interesting.
  • March 12, 2009
    WOW! Robert De Niro is fantastic in this role, in my opinion his best. This movie is very dark and twisted.
    Travis Bickle: You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Then who the hell else are you talking... you talking to me? Well I'm the only one here. Who the f...( read more)uck do you think you're talking to? Oh yeah? OK.


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  • March 11, 2009
    One fo the most brutal, honest and straight forward movies of a generation. A study in steadily increasing insantity and what might drive some one on the brink - over the edge. And the topper -- what a society might ultimately think of such a sociopath.
  • March 10, 2009
    One of Scorsese's best films and probably should have won the best picture Oscar. This was made when De Niro still did great performances. Jodi Foster is also excellent as the teenage hooker.
  • March 9, 2009
    Parts I liked, other parts I got a bit bored. The cinematography was good, but who did the score? There was only one track and it was so repetitive.
  • March 9, 2009
    Now, what's wrong with taking a nice young lady to see a porno on the first date?!
  • March 7, 2009
    Excelente pelicula! No es una gran película por su argumento; es una obra maestra por la puesta en escena de esa historia. Lo que Hace De Niro es perfecto ( tal vez lo mejor de el), es que no estás viendo a un actor, lo que ves es un taxista llamado Travis.
  • March 7, 2009
    i have only three words for this movie

    THE BEST EVER
  • March 6, 2009
    Such a gritty, filthy yet focused portrayal of a young man confused with himself and sickened with the things going on around him. He is so unaware of how to go about things that he brings Cybill Sheppard to a porno flick on their first date. A true, great character study done by...( read more) Scorsese. A classic film that shoule be seen by everyone.
  • March 4, 2009
    Madness, insanity taxi driver played by Robert De Niro, simply brilliant..
  • March 4, 2009
    gets better with every view
  • February 28, 2009
    Martin Scorsese's masterpiece about a crazy ass taxi driver, Robert De Niro and Jodie Foster Shine in this film.
  • February 28, 2009
    It seems that american movies made during the 70's are unbelievably more honest raw and uses story telling and film language better than today's hollywood fare.
  • February 27, 2009
    I can watch this over&over!I always see something I missed!great movie!!
  • February 27, 2009
    Excelente. Cruda. Real. Veraz.
  • February 26, 2009
    Scorsese masterpiece! DeNiro is really creepy in this exceptionally directed story of paranoia and "clash of the classes". You really "feel" for DeNiro's character. Keitel plays a wonderful sleezeball and Jodie Foster make her "adult" debut (she's 14) A really intense and wonderf...( read more)ul film. A must for your collection.
  • February 17, 2009
    weird guy, dirty streets, dirty politics, cheesy pimp, disturbance life, what could i ask more?
  • February 16, 2009
    Classic Scorsese film about a one-man vigilante, slowly spiraling into his own thoughts of lonliness, isolation and insanity.

    This movie will always have a place in my heart, even if it is viewed as a "man's film" by critics.

    I love films with a protagonist where you can hear ...( read more)and see his thoughts, feelings and how this relects in his actions and motives; It's gritty cinematography and mise-en-scene make it an unforgettable masterpiece.
  • February 15, 2009
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  • February 12, 2009
    Robert DeNiro was hot. as for the movie, well, Scorsese's pieces always got something not-good.
  • February 9, 2009
    one of the best film from him
  • February 7, 2009
    De Niro is so twisted in Taxi Driver that it's good. I don't really think it's the best Scorsese movie out there, or De Niro's best, but it's pretty darn good.
  • February 4, 2009
    This movie is with out a doubt ah realistic depiction of a sociopath in the making, in which the most frightening aspect isn't the sociopath, but society around him.
    Martin Scorcese and Robert DeNiro's best movie.

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