I was very dissapointed by this Martin Scorsese film. It had the good actors, the good plot, but seemed just weird. Without all of the necessary pieces, it ends out being an average movie. De Niro plays a cabbie who drives nonstop becomes he can't sleep as he is haunted by memories of Vietnam. He then falls for a woman played by Cybil Sheppard as well as later falls for a prostitute played by a young Jodie Foster.

De Niro's character is driven to madness and buys guns so that he can save Foster from her kidnappers. He gets a mohawk and has some classic lines like "you talking to me?". But, ultimately, I was bored by this movie that just seemed to go nowhere. I was lost at some moments and didn't even really realize that he was trying to save Foster at the end. I knew it because he had given her money for her to flee but the scene comes out of nowhere and is very brutal, bloody and unnecessary. This movie felt like a waste of my time and I was very dissapointed.

On the other hand, everyone else seems to love this movie. I guess I just don't understand this because the movie felt boring to me and just unnecessary.

But, I'm sure that no one will listen to me as I'm different than all of the other reviews and I'm the guy that fell asleep during two viewing of Alien. ( It wasn't nightime)

The night I watched tis, I chose it over Se7en and I regret this as I watched Se7en a couple days later and absolutley loved it.
I was very dissapointed by this Martin Scorsese film. It had the good actors, the good plot, but seemed just weird. Without all of the necessary pieces, it ends out being an average movie. De Niro plays a cabbie who drives nonstop becomes he can't sleep as he is haunted by memories of Vietnam. He then falls for a woman played by Cybil Sheppard as well as later falls for a prostitute played by a young Jodie Foster. De Niro's character is driven to madness and buys guns so that he can save Foster from her kidnappers. He gets a mohawk and has some classic lines like "you talking to me? ". But, ultimately, I was bored by this movie that just seemed to go nowhere. I was lost at some moments and didn't even really realize that he was trying to save Foster at the end. I knew it because he had given her money for her to flee but the scene comes out of nowhere and is very brutal, bloody and unnecessary. This movie felt like a waste of my time and I was very dissapointed. On the other hand, everyone else seems to love this movie. I guess I just don't understand this because the movie felt boring to me and just unnecessary. But, I'm sure that no one will listen to me as I'm different than all of the other reviews and I'm the guy that fell asleep during two viewing of Alien. ( It wasn't nightime)

The night I watched tis, I chose it over Se7en and I regret this as I watched Se7en a couple days later and absolutley loved it.