Review of Taxi Driver (1976) by S Christian R — 04 Dec 2012
It wasn't awful I'll give it that but I feel that labeling it as a cinematic masterpiece is a bit much. The character is interesting and we get to see the loneliness become companion to his psychosis and eventually evolve into a psychopathic violent explosion, but to what end? What was the point of the film? Was it to showcase the scum of New York and how one many turned his illness into vigilantism? If that's the point I feel like I missed out on that.
Considering not 15 minutes prior to his outburst of violence we was attempting to kill a potential political candidate it's hard to feel anything for this guy other than extreme discomfort. We've all been lonely, but lonely enough to befriend a hooker and try and tell people how they should live when the character in question pops pills, drinks away his pain and breaks things for no real reason? I'll give it that the camera work in the film is fantastic, but the score for this film is abysmal.
It's the same track over and over with only slight twists. I love jazz and much as the next guy but this was overkill. Overall it's not bad, I did enjoy it for some of the dialogue moments and especially it wins for the best credit ever for "Angry Black Guy" but this is no masterpieces.
Far from it.
This review of Taxi Driver (1976) was written by S Christian R on 04 Dec 2012.
Taxi Driver has generally received very positive reviews.
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