Review of Taxi Driver (1976) by Tristan M — 26 Aug 2014

The oldest of Robert de Niros films that I've seen, and it dosen't lack the skill of his more recent preformances. The character he plays is an interesting one, and de Niro plays him perfectly.

The film is a different one, something that I've never seen anything quite like, and it turns out to be a hit. It's a out the life of an ex-marine taxi driver, who works long hours to keep himself busy.

He works, goes to sex films, and repeats. He falls in love with a women but loses her after taking her to one of his explicit films, and after that slowly loses it. He buys four handguns, straps them all over himself and goes about his job, planing his final day.

He decides to try and save the ruined life of a 12 year old hooker who once got in his cab, and in coming to free her shoots three of her employers and his shot twice himself. It's a great final scene, but to our suprise we,re told that he survived and continued his job as a hopefully more sane taxi driver.

It's a great movie, something very different and tells a great story. It's interesting, keeps you unsure of what his intentions are, the acting is fantastic and it brought to use two very famous things: the "Are u talking to me?" quote and the awesome hidden pistol on the sliding rail under the sleeve device.