Taxi Driver

Genre: Drama
Year of release: 1976
Director: Martin Scorsese

"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 fuck do you think you're talking to?

I love Scorsese's movies he is a great director and I must say this is his best. This was the second time I have watched Taxi Driver, the first time was also great. De Niro was born to play Travis Bickle.

This and On the Waterfront are in my opinion the best acted movies of all time. Robert De Niro slips into this role and makes you forget he is Robert De Niro he simply transforms perfectly into Travis Bickle. Martin Scorsese has polished this movie into perfection and every scene shines in perfection as well as the story being pretty cool to go with it.

Travis Bickle is an ex marine, and wants a job where he can work long hours and room around the city. His character is lonely and although not clearly obvious he is mentally unstable Travis feels the need to help a prostitute he believes to be too young.

Taxi Driver's acting will never be forgotten, De Niro makes it look easy. His character comes off as being lonely, desperate, crazy but makes you look closely to see all this his character is obviously awesome.I think everybody can identify with the loneliness that Travis goes through at some point in our lives. I love the scene were he says the line " You talking to me" and I have been saying that since I first saw this movie, about 6 months ago. However unlike On the Waterfront there are no other real scenes that stand out because every scene is so well done that the whole movie stands out. Jodie Foster was also very good, her character was outgoing, loud, and childish because well she is a child in this movie. It is strange watching her when she was so young.

Like many of the greatest movies Taxi Driver is not fast paced it is nice and flowing, the music helps this as well. Travis just does his day to day thing and its exciting. I love the ending of this movie, it makes every Travis accomplished feel worth it.

In Conclusion this is one of the greatest movies of all time through its kick ass acting espically because of Robert De Niro who is now probably my favorite actor, the way in which Martin Scorsese has delivered it, the calm flowing and relaxing way this movie goes through each scene add to by the great score of the Saxophone Solo, makes you think and I love the main character Travis Bickle the whole way through this great film, even if he does make so dumb decisions (taking a girlfriend out to a porno film). Defiantly one of the best movies ever.

10/10