Police inspector Emilien and his taxi-driver pal Daniel are back, this time on the tail of a group of Japanese yakuza.
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Title: Taxi 2 (2000)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Samy Naceri | ... | Daniel Morales | |
| Frédéric Diefenthal | ... | Émilien Coutant-Kerbalec | |
| Marion Cotillard | ... | Lilly Bertineau | |
| Emma Wiklund | ... | Petra (as Emma Sjöberg) | |
| Bernard Farcy | ... | Commissaire Gibert | |
| Jean-Christophe Bouvet | ... | Général Edmond Bertineau | |
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Frédérique Tirmont | ... | Mother (as Frederique Tirmont) |
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Marc Faure | ... | French minister |
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Haruhiko Hirata | ... | Japanese minister |
| Tsuyu Shimizu | ... | Yuli (as Tsuyu) | |
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Ko Suzuki | ... | Katano |
| Yoshi Oida | ... | Yuke Tsumoto | |
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Kentaro | ... | Yakuza |
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Hiro Uchiyama | ... | Master hypnotist (as Hira Uchiyama) |
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Onochi Seietsu | ... | Master hypnotist |
The Japanese ambassaor is visiting Marseilles to view the city police's anti-gang tactics. During the visit, however, he is kidnapped by a group working for the Japanese yakuza. Young officer Emilien is determined to rescue the ambassador and officer Petra (his girlfriend), who was also kidnapped, and restore the honor of his department. Once again, speed demon taxi-driver Daniel (from the first Taxi movie) is called upon to save the day with his high-speed driving skills. Written by Jean-Marc Rocher <rocher@fiberbit.net>
Taxi 2 is an action-comedy. No serious drama, interesting story or a Oscar-winning comedy. Just a ordinary, very funny comedy.
Samy Naceri and Frederic Diefenthal return when a Japanese minister comes to France for some kind of new defense strategy. Of course, that strategy has to be showed, and than it goes wrong. The Japanese minister is kidnapped and the police tries with the help of Samy Naceri to get him back.
The final of the film is a bit overdone, when almost a dozen police-cars hit each other near to the Eiffel tower. Absolutely not realistic, but that's not such a bad thing, isn't it? It's the result of a great car-chase before, and the things that happen then are so dumb but so funny; irresistible. The greatest moment of the movie is when Samy Naceri, Frederic Diefenthal, some Japanese girl and the military father of Samy Naceri's girlfriend jump out of a plane. And when they come down...great, great, great, great!
Taxi 2 is a real must-see. Typically French, but great fun.