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Taxi
2004 97 min France, United States of America PG-13 12+
★3.9
Action, Comedy, Thriller, Crime
Director: Tim Story
🎭 Based on
«Taxi»
Trailers
Description
A mouthy and feisty taxicab driver has hot tips for a green and inept cop set on solving a string of New York City bank robberies committed by a quartet of female Brazilian bank robbers.
Budget:
$25M
US Gross:
$36.88M
Worldwide:
$71.26M
Starring
Queen Latifah
Actor
Jimmy Fallon
Actor
Gisele Bündchen
Actor
Awards
3 wins & 7 nominations total
Key opinion
The 2004 American remake of Taxi is widely considered a failed project that lacks the charm, wit, and narrative soul of the French original. While a small minority appreciates the film as a standalone action comedy, most critics and viewers condemn it for its uninspired script, flat characterizations, and redundant replication of scenes.
| Originality | The film functions as a hollow imitation, slavishly copying stunts and jokes from the original while stripping away the unique French personality. | |
| Screenplay | The screenplay relies on crude humor and thin, uninspired plotting that fails to replicate the sharp irony of the 1998 film. | |
| Acting | Performances are divisive: some viewers find Queen Latifah and Jimmy Fallon charismatic and capable, while others see their portrayals as overacted, bland, or lacking the chemistry of the French leads. | |
| Direction | The action sequences, particularly the car chases, are technically competent and energetic for some, but viewed by others as standard, uncreative, and inferior to the original. |