Taxi Driver (DVD) Reviews

Robert De Niro stars as a twenty-six year old war veteran living alone in a big city. He decides to apply to work as a taxi driver on nights, and thanks to his CV he gets the job. Very quickly he realises that there is a different side to the city at night than in the day, and he is overwhelmed by the depravity he sees in the ghettos he ...  Read the complete review

note: also appears in part on Flixster and The Student Room Taxi Driver is a great film from the world's greatest director, Martin Scorsese. At face value, it seems like a simple revenge film, but this hides a far more complex narrative about alienation and a world in seeming ruins. It is a loose reworking of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's superb ...  Read the complete review

Taxi Driver is probably Robert De Niro greatest ever performance as Travis Bickle the New York taxi driver who also acts as a vigilante in the streets of New York. Bicjkle is a former Vietnam veteran and like many of his colleagues from that war his experiences and the indifference he encounters when coming back to America serve to isolate him and ...  Read the complete review

Film only review. ------------------ The beginning ------------------ After hearing what a cult classic this film was, I set out to buy my first copy of this film on DVD which wasn't particularly a cheap buy at the time and sat through the entire 113 minutes of this film feeling slightly cheated that it was so ...  Read the complete review

Robert De Niro plays Travis Bickle, a lonely Vietnam war veteran who takes up a night job driving a taxi in New York City. This highly controversial film (Jodie Foster, 14 at the time of filming, playing a 12 year old prostitute) gave both Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro a major breakthrough, despite previous successes such as Mean Streets ...  Read the complete review

I may have been born in 1983, but the year 1976 had a pivotal effect upon my life. First came Rocky, a classic rags-to-riches tale of the underdog that captivated me ever since I remember first watching the original in my parents' living room, in my pre-adolescent years. Taxi Driver, born within the same year as Rocky, came later: like the main ...  Read the complete review

WHAT IS IT ABOUT: Robert De Niro stars as Travis Bickle, a reclusive Vietnam war vet whose desire for adding meaning to his life sees him embark on an attempted assassination and other dangerous escapades. WAS IT ANY GOOD: Often hailed as one of the greatest movies of all time, this classic from 1976 is a very odd movie. I ...  Read the complete review

A loose remake of John Ford's The Searchers, Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver tells the tale of Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro in an iconic, legendary, career-defining performance), a Vietnam veteran serving as a night-shift cabbie on the streets of New York City. An unhinged, socially inept loner, Travis, having been rejected by the woman he has ...  Read the complete review

Travis (played by Robert De Niro) is disgusted by the depravity he comes into contact with as a taxi driver on the streets of New York. The only shining light in this depraved city is a female campaign member for a local politician whom Travis becomes obsessed with but they are not destined to be together and his awkward attempts at romance ...  Read the complete review

'Taxi Driver' is a film made in 1976 and is directed by Martin Scorcese. The film centres around a New York cabbie called Travis Bickle (played by Robert De Niro) that is having some issues with identity. Travis develops an affection for Betsy (played by Cybill Shepherd) who works as a campaigner for a political candidate. Travis ...  Read the complete review

Normally I wouldn’t have a long preamble to a film review but since this is a special review for Jill Murphy to celebrate 4 years free from cancer, I will make an exception. I know that many of you on the site don’t like very long opinions so if you are interested specifically in the review of the film and don’t ...  Read the complete review

This is the harrowing tale of one mans journey into an urban decay of a city and his crumbling life. Robert De Niro gives probably one of his most chilling performances as the taxi driver of the films title Travis Bickle. Travis is back endlessly wandering the streets of New York after serving his time in the marines and finding it difficult to ...  Read the complete review

Are you talking to me?...Are you talking to me?... Well I don't see anyone else here! The beginnings for one of the immortal scenes in cinema history and the inspiration behind countless De Niro impersonations in the following decades. Taxi Driver is an important film seen as a classic to many and rightly so but why? The ...  Read the complete review

Story is of a man who has little or not human interaction in the jungle of the big city. He can't sleep and figures he might as well make some money out of his insomnia. He becomes fixated on Cybill Shepard who then rejects him - on their first date he takes her to the movies but it happens to be a dirty movie. This always seemed like a very ...  Read the complete review

"Taxi Driver" is one of those films that was slightly overrated, yet I have no cause for complaints. This is a very impressive character study about the distraught life of a loner who meanders through the streets of New York City. Travis Bickle came to be one of the most famous fictional characters in movie history. Almost ...  Read the complete review

The movie which announced the arrival of two of Hollywood brightest shining stars - Martin Scorcese and Robert De Niro. Taxi Driver won the Golden Palm award at the Cannes Film Festival and received award nominations left right and centre after its release. It is a deeply disturbing study of a Vietnam veteran's decent into madness after having ...  Read the complete review

Are you talkin' to me? Well, I'm the only one here. --Travis Bickle in "Taxi Driver" It is the last line, "Well, I'm the only one here," that never gets quoted. It is the truest line in the film. Travis Bickle exists in "Taxi Driver" as a character with a desperate need to make some kind of ...  Read the complete review

~ ~ I watched “Taxidriver” on TV recently for the first time in so long that it was almost like watching it for the first time all over again. Made way back in 1976, and directed by Martin Scorcese, it stars a very young Robert de Niro, ably assisted by Harvey Keitel and an incredibly young Jodie Foster. It was the recipient ...  Read the complete review

Taxi Driver tells the story of Travis Bickle, who, through sexual angst and living in a society more keen to give retribution rather than forgiveness, turns into an American madman/hero. I’m warning you that what is about to come up is a long and detailed exploration of Taxi Driver’s denouement. The extract begins with ...  Read the complete review

Taxi driver is the best movie I have ever seen. I first saw it five years ago and its impact has never lessened for me. The portrait of disturbed and lonely man, Taxi Driver is more than just a movie- it is an experience. Each scene in the movie contains (or is seen from the point of view of) cabbie Travis Bickle and by the halfway point ...  Read the complete review