Taxi [1998]

Product Details

Director : Gerard Pires
Actor : Samy Naceri, Frederic Diefenthal, Marion Cotillard, Manuela Gourary
Format : PAL
Binding : DVD
EAN : 5055002530487
Product Group : DVD
Region Code : 2
Release Date : 2007-09-24
Running Time : 86minutes
Studio : Metrodome Distribution

ASIN : B000TR6BCU

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Product Description

Former pizza delivery guy Daniel is speed crazy. Embarking on a new career as a taxi driver, his specially modified car is so fast even police radar can't spot him! When he unwittingly gives a high-speed ride to police officer Emilien, he is forced to accept a deal to keep his license: a stint as Emilien's personal driver. Now on the other side of the law, Daniel becomes the unlikely mastermind behind an investigation into a gang of German bank robbers. Aided by his girlfriend, Emilien's mother and a whole squad of pizza delivery boys, Daniel and Emilien join forces with hilarious consequences to foil the robbers on foot, on scooters and of course in taxis...

Synopsis

Written by Luc Besson, TAXI is a fast-paced comedy thriller, in which former pizza delivery guy Daniel (Samy Naceri) embarks on a new career as a taxi driver in his specially-adapted high-speed car. Oblivious to his passenger's day job, he demonstrates his talents to police officer Emilien (Frederic Diefenthal) and consequently Daniel is forced to accept a new role as the personal driver of Emilien's police car. Soon Daniel is in over his head in an adventure that involves German bank robbers, a legion of pizza delivery boys, and much more.

Review

Executive-produced by Luc Besson (The Big Blue) but directed by the far more obscure Gérard Pirès, this anodyne but perfectly amiable buddy movie-cum-policier sets up sexily scar-faced Samy Narceri as a speed-obsessed Marseilles taxi driver who's cajoled into helping clumsy cop Frédéric Diefenthal catch a gang of German bank robbers. The dialogue, characterisation and plotting are as flimsy as a rusty Lada, but they're only padding anyway between the slices of car-chase and motorway action that form the steely infrastructure of the film. These, indeed, are pretty spectacular: impressively fast, they're filmed by either low-slung bumper-mounted cameras to make the road seem perilously close or from helicopters to show just how unfaked the action is, while the generally excellent soundtrack pumps relentlessly on. The final stunt, involving an unfinished motorway overpass, is a real beauty in particular. When not zooming round corners and round asphalt, the characters puzzle dimly over the blindingly obvious ruses of the baddies and make continually frustrated attempts to sleep with their unfeasibly pneumatic love interests. If a French lad's magazine could talk, it would look something like Taxi, which of course will be no bad thing for many a viewer. -- --Leslie Felperin

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