Taxi Driver (DVD) Reviews

RELEASED: 1976, Cert. 18 RUNNING TIME: Approx. 117 mins DIRECTOR: Martin Scorsese PRODUCERS: Julia & Michael Phillips SCREENPLAY: Paul Schrader MUSIC: Bernard Herrmann MAIN CHARACTER:- Robert De Niro as Travis ...  Read the complete review

Travis Bickle is a Vietnam veteran. Adjusting to city life after his tour isn't the easiest thing to do, especially as he sees the negative side of society in his job as a taxi driver, which he has taken due to a bout of insomnia. Travis slowly but surely becomes more and more disillusioned with the world he lives in, and reaches boiling ...  Read the complete review

Taxi Driver is the very fine but somewhat disturbing 1976 drama directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Paul Schrader and starring Robert De Niro in his most recognizable role as Travis Bickle, the lonely taxi driver of the title who slips into depression, obsession and then violence. It co stars Cybill Shepherd, Peter Boyle, Harvey ...  Read the complete review

This is another excellent Martin Scorcese film, starring Robert De Niro as a man who used to fight in the Vietnam war and is now a New York taxi driver who slowly goes insane from witnessing the run down life around him in the city. Eventually, he snaps as he, in his warped mind, wants to protect a 12 year old child working ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  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 ...  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 ...  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 ...  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 ...  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 ...  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 ...  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 ...  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 ...  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 ...  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? ...  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 ...  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. ...  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 ...  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 ...  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 ...  Read the complete review