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It'd been a while since I last saw this movie, and I was worried that I saw it through rose tinted glasses - what if it wasn't as good as I remembered it? As the riveting Misirlou started pumping through the opening credits, I realized that I had been right - Taxi wasn't as good as I remembered it. It was much, much better.
Daniel Morales (hilarious Samy Naceri) is a pizza delivery guy who is just planning to cross over into the world of taxi driving. He meets Émilien (Frédéric Diefenthal), a loser cop who can't seem to get anything right and is obsessively chasing a group of German bank robbers known as the Mercedes gang. Fooled into thinking that Émilien works at IBM, Daniel is caught red-handed practicing his very personal way of driving. Émilien lets him choose between losing his car or helping him, Émilien, to catch ze Germans. "That's like choosing between death and humiliation", Daniel says, but eventually agrees. Can his street smarts help poor Émilien to finally stop the Mercedes gang?
The movie is filled to the brim with spectacular racing scenes. A pumping soundtrack helps, as well as the hilarious script (written by Luc Besson, one of my fave directors), which keeps the story going at a high pace that never lets up. Samy Naceri is hilarious as the sarcastic Daniel and Diefenthal is perfect as his pathetic character Émilien. These two also develop a fantastic chemistry that is rarely seen in this kind of buddy movie. Swedish Emma Sjöberg and Marion Cottilard are sexy and beautiful as the leading ladies, and Bernard Farcy is hilarious as the deliciously incompetent police officer. Overall this is a hilarious, fun summer movie that will definitely get your adrenaline pumping.
Basically, everything that The Fast and the Furious tried to be. See it.
It'd been a while since I last saw this movie, and I was worried that I saw it through rose tinted glasses - what if it wasn't as good as I remembered it? As the riveting Misirlou started pumping through the opening credits, I realized that I had been right - Taxi wasn't as good as I remembered it. It was much, much better.
Daniel Morales (hilarious Samy Naceri) is a pizza delivery guy who is just planning to cross over into the world of taxi driving. He meets Émilien (Frédéric Diefenthal), a loser cop who can't seem to get anything right and is obsessively chasing a group of German bank robbers known as the Mercedes gang. Fooled into thinking that Émilien works at IBM, Daniel is caught red-handed practicing his very personal way of driving. Émilien lets him choose between losing his car or helping him, Émilien, to catch ze Germans. "That's like choosing between death and humiliation", Daniel says, but eventually agrees. Can his street smarts help poor Émilien to finally stop the Mercedes gang?
The movie is filled to the brim with spectacular racing scenes. A pumping soundtrack helps, as well as the hilarious script (written by Luc Besson, one of my fave directors), which keeps the story going at a high pace that never lets up. Samy Naceri is hilarious as the sarcastic Daniel and Diefenthal is perfect as his pathetic character Émilien. These two also develop a fantastic chemistry that is rarely seen in this kind of buddy movie. Swedish Emma Sjöberg and Marion Cottilard are sexy and beautiful as the leading ladies, and Bernard Farcy is hilarious as the deliciously incompetent police officer. Overall this is a hilarious, fun summer movie that will definitely get your adrenaline pumping.
Basically, everything that The Fast and the Furious tried to be. See it.