I think someone should just take this city and just... just flush it down the fuckin' toilet.
1976 Martin Scorsese
Travis Bickle (Robert deNiro) is a slightly mad insomniac Vietnam Vet living in New York and gets a job as a taxi driver, he takes the work no-one else likes, going to the less savoury parts of town inhabited by the pimps and pushers. Here he crosses paths with a very young hooker Iris (Jody Foster) and her pimp/boyfriend Matthew (Harvey Keitel) sporting one of the best pimp outfits every to grace the big screen.
Travis thinks it is his duty to clean the streets starting with the politians, one in particular Senator Palantine. He attends a rally and starts a chat with the secret agent who in the 70s were unable to spot a lunatic in a raincoat stuffed with guns, he doesn't go through with it but then turns his attention to the lowlifes in the hoods. Good shoot out at the end.
The film keeps you on edge you never really know what he is going to do until he does it.
70s classic 8/10
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