Taxi
1998 Directed by Gérard Pirès
Synopsis
In Marseilles (France), skilled pizza delivery boy Daniel who drives a scooter finally has his dreams come true. He gets a taxi license. Caught by the police for a huge speed infraction, he will help Emilien, a loser inspector who can't drive, on the track of German bank robbers, so he doesn't lose his license and his dream job.
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You're just not used to French cinema pumping out completely daft action films like this - or at least you weren't back in the late 1990s when this was released. This is one of the earlier flat-out French action films and one whose style is still being emulated in Gallic actioners to this day.
Plot logic and continuity are thrown out of the window in exchange for some pretty good (if not all that exhilarating, compared to some other films, including in its sequels) car chases and long lingering shots of Emma Sjoberg and Marion Cotillard's legs and breasts. That was probably enough for some people, and shamelessly gratuitous. In a good way
Sami Naceri and Frederic Diefenthal make a…
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Porque los churros de acción nunca pasan de moda, súmenle una joven Cotillard que se merece todos los arrumacos.
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Lovely story, filled with action and French, light humour.
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Highly Illogical and dumb but who gives a fuck ? This movie is all about the FUN !!
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Harmless bit of fluff. Scooter-driver becomes taxi driver and helps the police instead of losing his license. Nothing to write home about, but the action sequences are well done.
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You're just not used to French cinema pumping out completely daft action films like this - or at least you weren't back in the late 1990s when this was released. This is one of the earlier flat-out French action films and one whose style is still being emulated in Gallic actioners to this day.
Plot logic and continuity are thrown out of the window in exchange for some pretty good (if not all that exhilarating, compared to some other films, including in its sequels) car chases and long lingering shots of Emma Sjoberg and Marion Cotillard's legs and breasts. That was probably enough for some people, and shamelessly gratuitous. In a good way
Sami Naceri and Frederic Diefenthal make a…