Despite my title to this review, the movie itself is good, but that's as far as I'd go. Is it a masterpiece and a must see film when South Korea has produced much better gems? Not at all! I envy people who can watch these cliched/generic filmed movies, see it 1000 times over and not realize how painfully over-dramatic the movie is trying to be. On top of that the soundtrack for this movie is AWWWWWFFFFUUULLLL. You do not need to use loud strings and blaring music every time something important happens. For the love of god, let a viewer interpret a scene on their own without making the music convey what we're supposed to be feeling every time we watch it unfold. The music took me out of so many scenes and the chases/violence particularly when they were on the rooftops were so cliched it was laughable. If it wasn't for the sound acting, and some genuinely well done camera work, and pacing. If it wasn't for that, this movie would be much lower on my rating. It's vastly overrated by people here that don't seem to watch anything besides one foreign movie and think it's profound just because it has a message. Real shame because this had massive potential but it was so melo-dramatic to the core that it's hard to take serious just like another overrated pile of mess A Train to Busan but this was at least much better than that.
Review of A Taxi Driver
A Taxi Driver
(2017)
An over-dramatic re-telling! A formulaic and soundtrack ridden mess
21 December 2021