Amazon. com essential videoTaxi Driver is the definitive cinematic portrait of loneliness and alienation manifested as violence. It is as if director Martin Scorsese and screenwriter Paul Schrader had tapped into precisely the same source of psychological inspiration (“I just knew I had to make this film,” Scorsese would later say), combined with a perfectly timed post-Watergate expression of personal, political, and societal anxiety. Robert De Niro, as the tortured, ex-Marine ca. . . More >>
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ok i want to start off by saying that im only writing this to hopefully save a good 2-3 hours of a few peoples lives. i had heard good things about this movie for a long time and i finally rented it. man was i dissapointed. the movie starts out VERY slow with deniro driving around in his taxi watching people. This goes on for like an hour and a half (seems longer). after talking to 20 people in pointless conversations he finally buys some pistols. i was thinking ok this is going to get more entertaining very soon. he then proceeds to practice shooting for a half hour in his apartment but whenever he goes out he never brings the guns. so after awhile of watching him talk to more prostitutes and other people he finally decides to go shoot a guy running for president. i was thinking ok this better be the biggest fire fight ever to make up for the past couple hours for boredom. right when he tries to pull a gun a secret service guy spots him and he runs away. . . . i then wanted to turn off the movie. . . but i didnt. so then hes goes home and practices somemore then decides hes gonna save a little girl. so he goes and shoots a couple guys but you really cant see much because its really dark. the girl is then “free” even though she could have left anytime and deniro looks like hes going to die on the bed. i was thinking ok that was an okay ending to a VERY long, boring, and overall bad movie. but of course it didnt end. he doesnt go to jail for some reason so i thought maybe he has a chance to kill the guy running for president and there will be some huge scarface like ending. nope. hes drives around and adjusts his mirror and hes a hero because he saved a prostitute.
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Rating: 1 / 5
My wife and I found this video to be very boring because there was no plot, poor dialogue, and even the score was monotonous. We viewed it in Sept, 2001, which is 25 years after the movie release. Maybe when it was released it had something to say but it does not hold up to time. Great movies have great dialogue.
Rating: 1 / 5
This film is manipulative and exploitative. It DOES NOT really give you a portrait of what alienation, paranoia and dislocation are really like. It glamourises these things in the worst possible way ie very, very slickly and with a lot of craft and attention to detail. This film belongs in the same dustbin as similarly AMORAL and empty films like Seven, Goodfellas et al that purport to be ‘truthful’ investigations of the dark and disturbing – they are part of the problem, not the solution !
Rating: 2 / 5
A film classic (apparently) about a Vietnam veteran who becomes a taxi driver and then lets himself be broken down by the misery and the meaninglessness of modern society. Seen with Year 2000 eyes, »Taxi Driver« does not have a great deal of appeal. It has purely historical value. The best things you can say about this film is the very beautiful photographing and cameraing, plus that it is interesting to watch very young Robert DeNiro’s and even younger Jodie Foster’s already then great talents. You also get glimpses of Harvey Keitel and Jeff Goldblum. Do watch »Taxi Driver«, ’cause it is one of those classics that you have to have seen. But don’t expect too much.
Rating: 1 / 5
Overrated piece of !@#$. Absolutely NOTHING happens in this movie other than being forced to listen to the same incredibly cheesy music over and over and over again. After an hour and a half of wondering if anything is ever going to happen, DeNiro shoots a couple people. The end. Wow. What was all the hype about? Genius? Artsy? I don’t see it. Don’t waste your time. Is this movie highly rated for any other reason than being one of DeNiro’s earlier films?
I rented this movie because I saw it on a program “The 100 most thrilling movies of all time”. What a joke. I’m sorry I wasted the $3. 50 to rent the DVD.
If this is movie is considered to be a “classic”, then certainly it’s true that nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. Okay, let the “not helpful” reviews flow. .
Rating: 1 / 5