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Taxi (2004)

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Reviews Counted:8

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Rotten:8

Average Rating:2.7/10

Consensus: Silly and unfunny remake of a French movie of the same name.

Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins

Genre: Action/Adventure

Synopsis: Jimmy Fallon gets his first starring role with TAXI, an action-packed comedy that finds the former Saturday Night Live showman teaming up with Oscar-nominated rapper-turned-actress Queen Latifah... Jimmy Fallon gets his first starring role with TAXI, an action-packed comedy that finds the former Saturday Night Live showman teaming up with Oscar-nominated rapper-turned-actress Queen Latifah (CHICAGO). Fallon is Washburn, a truly pathetic New York City cop who can't seem to wake up in the morning without bumbling busts and breaking whatever he touches. After his most recent debacle, his boss and former flame, Lieutenant Marta Robbins (Jennifer Esposito), revoked his license. Latifah is Belle, a retired bike messenger who is about to fulfill a lifelong dream of becoming a bona fide cab driver. When Fallon commandeers Belle's services after hearing of a nearby bank robbery, a partnership is formed. Unfortunately, even when he means well, Washburn is nothing but trouble. Against her better judgment, Belle finds herself doing what she can to help out the pitiful Washburn, even though the bank robbers (led by supermodel Gisele Bundchen) are several steps ahead of the game. Produced by Luc Besson, who wrote the 1998 film upon which Tim Story's film is based, TAXI is an engaging romp that features likeable performances from its lead actors, as well as hilarious supporting turns from Ann-Margret and Adrian Martinez. [More]

Starring: Queen Latifah, Jimmy Fallon, Henry Simmons, Jennifer Esposito

Starring: Queen Latifah, Jimmy Fallon, Henry Simmons, Jennifer Esposito, Ann-Margret, Gisele Bundchen, Adrian Martinez

Director: Tim Story

Director: Tim Story
Screenwriter: Jim Kouf, Thomas Lennon, Ben Garant
Producer: Luc Besson
Composer: Christophe Beck
Studio: 20th Century Fox

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It would take a tankerload of laughing gas to pump some humour into this flat-tyred fiasco.

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It's got suped up autos, suped up models, and suped up action. Fairly safe to say that it'll appeal to it's target audience, wethinks?

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This is a cynical, tired example of filmmaking. Plenty of noise. Little va-va-voom.

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11/16/04
Nev Pierce
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Taxi serves up embarrassing evidence that even a ragged French original can be better than its American remake.

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Robert Koehler
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Full of car chases, weak jokes and scenes so meandering they make Saturday Night Live look like a paragon of brevity and wit.

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Carina Chocano
Carina Chocano
Los Angeles Times
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A remake of a 1998 French film of the same name, Tim Story's Taxi is a bland, half-finished film that seems to have been conceived as off-peak cable fodder.

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Dave Kehr
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[A] thoroughly repetitive, ill-conceived and poorly executed effort.

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Kirk Honeycutt
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A film that is wall-to-wall idiocy.

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