Quite possibly the most over rated movie I have ever seen. This 1970s film is based in New York and unsurprisingly a taxi driver played by Robert De Niro. We see the squalor of seventies New York through the eyes of the taxi driver Travis Bickle. You have to agree with Bickles assertions of the scum of the city. Bickle is a Vietnam marine veteran who gets a night time job driving a cab because he has insomnia. Bickle is mentally unstable and we see him descend into a crescendo of violence towards the end of the film. The film stars De Niro, Cybil Shepherd (Moonlighting with Bruce Willis), a prostitute Jodie Foster, pimp Harvey Keitel.... The score is acclaimed. The composer Bernard Herrmann scored several Alfred Hitchcock hits. The film is directed by Martin Scorcese. The partnership of Scorcese and De Niro became a regular partnership. I still felt let down by the film despite its legendary status amongst many cinephiles.