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Taxi Driver [1976] | ![Taxi Driver [1976]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51FCBXGM7NL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Martin Scorsese
Actors: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Category: Video
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Rating:  59 reviews
Sales Rank: 380
Format: Dolby, Pal, Surround Sound
Languages: English (Original Language), Swedish (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Media: VHS Tape
Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 109 Minutes
EAN: 5023940001925
ASIN: B00004CK4Y
Theatrical Release Date: February 8, 1976
Release Date: May 19, 1997
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Taxi 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 cab driver Travis Bickle, made movie history with his chilling performance as one of the most memorably intense and vividly realised characters ever committed to film. Bickle is a self-appointed vigilante who views his urban beat as an intolerable cesspool of blighted humanity. He plays guardian angel for a young prostitute (Jodie Foster), but not without violently devastating consequences. This masterpiece, which is not for all tastes, is sure to horrify some viewers, but few could deny the film's lasting power and importance. --Jeff Shannon
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 YES September 25, 2008
-Shopper (UK)
I love this film, and I have done for a long time.
I think its a piece of cinematic gold, and should be watched by all.
If you enjoy atmospheric, inspirational and insightful films featuring people who can turn their hand to acting in a special way, then you're already on the right path just by clicking on this title...
NOW BUY IT!
This DVD is worth buying 10 times over.
I kid you not...
One of my favourate films September 15, 2008
OK (Ireland)
I had to study this film twice in college once for a postmodernism class and the other for film. Studying it has only made me love it more. It's a great film with great shots and just has so much. I could write an essay about it and if I go on too much I probably will. Just look at this film closely look at the way the camera moves and the edits. Also look at the main characters development his isolation, inability to relate to anyone and delusions.
 A Very Overated Film August 8, 2008
ty
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This film is very overated, I dont understand why it gets the praise it does. I found it very boring and no way near as good as other scorcese films such as Goodfellas. The scene thats most memorable of Robert De Niro the famous "Are You Looking At Me", I thought was going to be said to somebody else but its just him in the mirror talking to himself very disapointing, I expected a lot from this film but it gave very little. I recommend you to watch the film but please dont regard it as a classic film.
appearences as a bad haircut are important May 22, 2008
Carlos Vazquez Quintana (Linares- Spain)
I like Travis, this Taxi Driver. I understand people which wants to maintain so pure as him is a little suspicious (and when not, he invites Cibyll Shepherd to a pornographic movie!) This man isn't centred, as that woman is herself a pure temptation he doesn't know how to profit.
Travis is a very good worker, a busy taxi driver and a fundamentalist criminal but at end, candid and innocent, this is, very dangerous in actual society. He shots and kills several times, but we are speaking of the exploitation as a prostitute of a girl only 13 years old. If police don't act, it's legitimate for me to do something. Choice of firearms he does is bad: the Magnum 44 is too much gun, the automatic 25 is too little gun, the 38 revolver with mother-of- pearl butt-end seems little fiable. Only the Walther 380 and the combat knife I find trustworthy.
But it's the consumer society: you have to buy the articles that are offered, and these are not ever the best material. Summing up, to clean New York from delinquents you need much more than these.
 Taxi Driver February 24, 2008
Spider Monkey (UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
'Taxi Driver' is a dark film looking at one mans alienation from society and life around him. It looks at how he gradually descends into his own form of madness and you really get a sense for how he feels through De Niros chilling portrayal. The lack of sleep and night shifts Travis (the main protagonist) works only serve to isolate him further from reality and life. When he meets a young political campaigner and a prostitute, both of these relationships spur him into dark action against the scum of new york. I have to say the direction and acting was excellent, you really get a feel for the malevolence Travis feels around him and his sense of disjointed exhaustion. The soundtrack is very dated now and the same jazzy refrain used throughout the film started to get on my nerves. It is a good film and definitely one to watch, but I have to say I was expecting so much more after all the hype on these pages and from things i've heard before that I was left a touch disappointed. The ending is powerful and then kind of fizzles out afterwards, you'll know what I mean when you watch it. Overall a good film and worth a viewing.
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