Review of Taxi Driver (1976) by Paptimussc — 08 Oct 2019

I decided that I should watch the movie everyone is mentioning inspired the more recent Joker movie. There are a lot of similarities and while I found Taxi Driver to be much better than Joker, it's still not a very good movie that I'm happy to have sat through.

While things pick up in the middle of the film, the opening is dull and slow. Then after it seems like something is going to happen when the cabby gets fed up, it returns to a slow pace until a 2 minute action sequence at the end.

It kind of doesn't seem like it has a fluid story or directing and doesn't engage me as a viewer. It did help me understand how Joker could try to copy a flawed movie and make it worse than the source, though, so I'm not entirely disappointed.