***SPOILERS***Utterly ridicules movie about an L.A taxi driver being recruited by the mob to drive around the city for days on end with some $5,000,000.00 locked in his car trunk until the time was right for him to hand it over to them. The taxi driver Cutler Irving also has both his wife and brother kidnapped, in the case of his wife Mary, and murdered, his brother Frank, as a result of his not fully cooperating with the mob! Cutler for his part just goes on driving his cab throughout the movie without as much as a care, or fare, in the world even picking up a French exchange student that was left homeless, by being kicked out of her hotel-room for being late with the rent, that he has a hot & heavy relationship with. That's until his wife, whom he thought was murdered, showed up alive and being the hero of the movie was forced, which seemed like against his will, to rescue her from her abductors.
We also have the added attraction of the FBI and LAPD using Cutler as an undercover and secret agent for them in getting the goods on the mobsters lead by the very hairy unkempt and obviously mentally challenged Tate, or is it Jake, the mob drug kingpin who's holding Cutler's wife Mary hostage. We get endless tours of the city of L.A and its surroundings in Cutler doing his job driving passengers around where if you watch closely he seems too be the only taxi driver in the entire city! Cutler despite his not being so interested in his job seems to have the best time in the movie, besides with his French girlfriend,driving around town without a care, or even fare, in the world! That by watching him you think he never took time to read the unintelligible script that he was handed by the film makers!
*****SPOILERS**** It's finally when Cutler got down to business that the movie started picking up with him taking out the mob single-handed Rambo-style not with any guns and explosives but a bow & arrow set he picked up at Tate's, who gets it between his teeth, hideout. Cutler also used his fists to take care Tate's mobsters as well which in him being a professional boxer, with a 21 and 0 record, was the most convincing acting he did in the entire movie. Lee Canalito as Cutler seemed to have trouble staying awake as well as focus in his role as a**-kicking taxi driver Cutler Irving but you can forgive him for that in the brainless material he was handed to work with. Canalito has since given up acting and opened up a popular GYM in his hometown in Huston Texas where unlike in his acting career he's far more successful.
We also have the added attraction of the FBI and LAPD using Cutler as an undercover and secret agent for them in getting the goods on the mobsters lead by the very hairy unkempt and obviously mentally challenged Tate, or is it Jake, the mob drug kingpin who's holding Cutler's wife Mary hostage. We get endless tours of the city of L.A and its surroundings in Cutler doing his job driving passengers around where if you watch closely he seems too be the only taxi driver in the entire city! Cutler despite his not being so interested in his job seems to have the best time in the movie, besides with his French girlfriend,driving around town without a care, or even fare, in the world! That by watching him you think he never took time to read the unintelligible script that he was handed by the film makers!
*****SPOILERS**** It's finally when Cutler got down to business that the movie started picking up with him taking out the mob single-handed Rambo-style not with any guns and explosives but a bow & arrow set he picked up at Tate's, who gets it between his teeth, hideout. Cutler also used his fists to take care Tate's mobsters as well which in him being a professional boxer, with a 21 and 0 record, was the most convincing acting he did in the entire movie. Lee Canalito as Cutler seemed to have trouble staying awake as well as focus in his role as a**-kicking taxi driver Cutler Irving but you can forgive him for that in the brainless material he was handed to work with. Canalito has since given up acting and opened up a popular GYM in his hometown in Huston Texas where unlike in his acting career he's far more successful.