Taxi Driver

All time classic film about bleak, crippling loneliness. De Niro and Scorsese portrayed such a raw, disturbing character study that has stayed within me for so many years, and only increases in impact upon rewarches.

Good Movie

A decent steelbook.. Got it at a very competitive price.. It's matt finished but not embossed.. The artwork however is exquisite which makes up for the price.. A must have for every Scorsese fan..

Best of Martin Scorsese.....

very good movie

I bought it for I heard great reviews about this movie but I didn't appeal me much.

Obra maestra en 4k. Edición británica.

I am not going to review the film itself because there is no way that I am worthy of doing that. This is one of my all-time favourite films, and I have probably seen it 20-30 times. Robert DeNiro is amazing in his role. There are so many memorable, iconic, scenes and yet the one that always sticks in my mind is Martin Scorsese as the passenger - that is amazing and disturbing! I was really impressed with the whole package. I found the special features very good, compared with those tacked on to other films of similar vintage. They were relevent, and give a modern audience some good insight into the context of this story. I was in NYC in the 1970s and it was very different! The features also give good insight into the general themes of the movie - things that had not occurred to me and make me worry a bit about why this is my favourite film; I may have to go back to Alfie, Rocky Horror, or A Clockwork Orange. Anyway, I love this package, am glad I bought it, and it has pride of place in my DVD collection. You won't be disappointed.

This is a brilliant film; for me it's aesthetically beautiful (the Taxi bumper shots showing the bright lights of New York are stunning), it's also got a lovely melancholic jazz soundtrack that highlights Travis' perceived pointlessness and ambling in and through life. (Plot spoilers) The story is simple: an insomniac wants to better spend his sleepless nights so enrols to drive taxis, slowly but surely falling into the abyss of loneliness and insanity. He witnesses the depraved and seedy nature of New York at night (prostitutes, drug dealers et al.) and brands them the scum of the earth. This, ironically, coming from a man who regularly visits dirty movie theatres. At the same time, we see Travis develop obsessions with Betsy who is a campaign worker for Palantine, a presidential candidate. Soon after their relationship develops, Travis makes the mistake of taking her to one of the aforementioned dirty movies, which immediately sees an end to this relationship. Travis later angrily confronts her and makes various violent remarks towards her, the first sign of his unstable mental state. Throughout the film Travis encounters a young child prostitute who he feels is being forced against her will to ply her trade. Meanwhile he begins training and preparing to assassinate Palantine. When it comes to it however, he fails to do so after being spotted by Secret Service Agents before he attempts the assassination. His desire to exact violence upon those he despises (Palantine for his connection to Betsy) leads him to the location of the child prostitute who he feels he must help escape from prostitution. Therefore, he murders her pimp, the bouncer and her customer (these being the scum of the earth that he despises). He is injured in the battle and fails to commit suicide. Later he awakes from a coma to a hero's welcome for helping Iris (the child prostitute) return to her parents and Betsy showing renewed interest in Travis. The irony here being that had he been successful in assassinating Palantine he would have been deemed evil but now he is a hero. On note of the Blu-ray itself: WOW! For a film made in 70s this is one crisp picture!! I can't rave enough about how good the picture quality is; I must compare it to the recently released Star Wars Blu-rays and Taxi Driver blows those away. Yes, there are certain scenes where the camera pans and it seems as if the screen is jolting a bit and other scenes aren't quite as good quality as others but boy are the HQ scenes GOOD and the Low Quality scenes are still dozens of times higher than I could've hoped for in a 70s film. Bravo to Scorsese, De Niro et al.!

Last saw this on cable about 15 years ago for about the 5th time, and liked it after every viewing, spaced about 3 or 4 years apart. Fast forward to day with a longer gap between views, coupled with higher quality blu-ray this time, and I now love it more than ever. This film has aged very, very well for me. I'm telling you a quality transfer to blu-ray from original film elements improves the color depth and contrast and audio so much so that it's like watching with a new perspective. Especially watching on a good quality big screen tv, in a dark room, sitting close to get a cinema theater type experience. Trivia that I learned in the extras: A big scene with blood late in the film looked oddly brownish to me, instead of dark crimson red. I was thinking a defect in the color from a damaged film element. Turns out the brownish blood was by design, via censorship from the powers that be. The scene was so graphic for the time that the only way the censors would let the scene remain was to alter the blood's color in post, to make a little less graphic. A deranged DeNiro is at his height as a young actor, and Cybil Shephard's sizzling good looks and decency create a dynamic contrast that bodes so well for the story line. This is pure cinema and story telling at its finest.

Una película de culto. Excelente contenido de extras. Las 4 estrellas son porque la slipcover llegó maltratada de una esquina. El servicio de primera. ¡Gracias!