Let's be brutally honest here. The film is extremely slow paced with next to no storyline making it dreary and boring. I know it's one of the great films for it's time and its not that it was acted poorly, but instead the message being portrayed in the movie was very depressing. The main message in the film is seeing the mental state of a cab driver, while we watch him live his daily life and how those condition can make a man go to the extremes. He's depressed... He has a crappy job... His social skills are terrible... I understand setting a scene and a mood for a character, but the entire film was about setting the scene and the mood. It was only at the very end that the movie picked up when the character finally came to the end of himself and made a decision to do something about it. Perhaps the deep meaning of the film is powerful and well portrayed, but its depressing to watch. The one thing that did catch my attention in the movie was Robert De Niro. He's so young in this movie and he acts a little different than his usual roles, it was nice seeing a different side of his acting and as always he never disappoints. I wish there would have been more scenes with Jodie Foster, as this was the movie that helped bring her into the publics eye with her talented acting at such a young age. I was surprised how little of a role she had in the film as they brought her in during the end of the movie, but she definitely doesn't disappoint with her acting skills.