Taxi (Widescreen Edition)
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Movie Reviews of Taxi (Widescreen Edition)
Movie Review: Okish film
Summary: 2 Stars
This movie of a bumbling policemean (Jimmy Fallon) and a go-getter taxi driver (Queen Latifah) sounds good when you read the blurb.
The movies has its moments, especially when Queen Latifah appears on the screen. But, on the whole the movie does not deliver what it promises in the blurb. I would not recommend this movie. See the movie if you have no other options when you go to rent it at your local video store.
Movie Review: ha ha jay!!! This film is crap
Summary: 2 Stars
I have a friend called Jason o' Byrne and he loves this film... i just wanted to say...Jay this film is REALLY BAD!!!
But the models are bleedin animal Review: Comedy Misfires and Suspense Fails...
Summary: 1 Stars Dreams and aspirations often indicate what kind of profession a person intends to pursue. In Taxi, which is a remake, the audience gets to follow two people with very different aspirations, one a cab driver and the other a police officer. Belle (Queen Latifah) has worked hard over the last five years, as a bike borne delivery woman, to accomplish her goal to become a cab driver. The long and hard work has also affected Belle's relationship with her boyfriend, as she has been preoccupied with fulfilling her dream. Her dream is to drive her own cab, a boosted Ford Crown Victoria on steroids in superior James Bond style.
Police detective Washburn (Jimmy Fallon) finds himself being demoted and having his driver's license suspended by his superior, Lieutenant Robbins (Jennifer Esposito), as a result of a car accident during a stake out. Without a drivers license Washburn is forced to use public transportation, but when he overhears a bank robbery in progress over his portable radio he takes a cab to the crime scene. This cab happens to be Belle's improved Crown Victoria, and it is about to put her career and relationship on the line while Washburn keeps digging himself a deeper hole.
Together Belle and Washburn begin a long uphill road in order to redeem themselves in regards to their professional careers and private lives. This journey takes them through eye-boggling car chases, death defiant stunts, and a couple of lessons in how to drive a car. These dangers are stitched together with slapstick humor and frequent situational jokes in regards to Washburn's stupidity, insecurities, and inabilities. The humor and jokes are clichés from previous unoriginal films, which makes the jokes more mind numbing than humorous. The timing of the jokes seems to be missed, as if the audience knows the punch line before the joke is presented. This makes much of the humor silly, untimely, and overall less funny.
Taxi presents some high-speed car chases in New York, but many of them seem to go on forever as if New York City had mile blocks. The bank robbers' ability to hit targets the size of a quarter in 100 feet distances while moving with a handgun presents a new level of sharp shooter. These marksmen make Sergeant Riggs in Lethal Weapon look like a ten-year-old that still wets the bed. Therefore, these scenes create much awkwardness and it appears that the car chases and the other action scenes were intended to induce some form of suspense, but fail drastically in doing so.
The combination of humor and action has been used efficiently before in films such as 48 Hrs. (1982), Beverly Hills Cop (1984), Lethal Weapon (1987), and Die Hard (1988). In Naked Gun (1988) the viewers could see parody in action, as it made a mockery of the films made before that brought the audience action, suspense, and comedy through the law enforcement. Taxi attempts to deliver a film that walks on the ground in between the parodies and suspenseful actions, but never accomplishes to give suspense or comedy. And as far as the message of following ones dreams and aspirations, well, it is lost somewhere in the beginning. Overall Taxi offers a cinematic experience with very little true humor and suspense and would even make a nervous person fall asleep. Let us hope that Tim Story does a better job directing his upcoming Fantastic Four, as he did with Barbershop (2002).
Movie Review: Duh
Summary: 1 Stars
A genre bridging feature (comedy-action-sexploitation) where a hapless NYC cop teams with a fast-driving mouthy cabbie to chase four leggy foreign supermodels robbing banks. Very little of the comedy works, the action sequences would have been great in 1970 but the advent of digital effects takes most of the thrill out of this kind of stuff (if they are totally fake who cares), and the sexploitation is a teasing afterthought.
The failure to deliver on the sexploitation part is especially curious because it would have been the easiest of the three to get right. They certainly promoted that angle but the models are only on the screen for about 4% of the running time and even then are mostly in nonflattering disquises (the second unit probably shot all their stuff in one weekend before INS deported them). The brainlessness of the producers in this regard rivals Pamela Anderson's awful "Barbwire" where she was dressed in sexy black outfits only to be filmed entirely in shadows. And they wonder why their films lose money.
"Taxi" wastes no time losing its wheels, they fall off with the opening scene of an "svelt" bike messenger (obviously not Latifah) racing through the city, finally stopping to remove his helmet to reveal Latifah herself. Insulting your intelligence at the beginning at least lowers your expectations for the rest of the film.
Then again, what do I know? I'm only a child.
Movie Review: inane, bottom-of-the-barrel comedy
Summary: 1 Stars
*1/2
Andy Washburn is a thoroughly inept police officer who's such a bad driver that his very own lieutenant takes his license away from him, leaving him without wheels to do his job in crime-ridden Manhattan. Belle Williams is a newly licensed cabbie, whose absurdly hopped-up taxi Washburn jumps into when he needs to get to the scene of a bank robbery. Together, they become an unlikely crime-fighting duo as they go after a quartet of gorgeous Brazilian criminals who look like they just stepped out of the pages of Vanity Fair or Vogue (quite possibly the least believable criminals in movie history). And if this synopsis doesn't sound like the setup for a cinematic disaster to you, you obviously have a much lower threshold for movie comedy than I do.
Trapped in a vehicle that is practically a blueprint for how NOT to make an effective comedy, Queen Latifah and Jimmy Fallon have nothing to do for 97 minutes but exchange witless one liners in between highly preposterous and ultimately very boring car chases. Although the two lead actors try their best with what they've been given, they're eventually overcome not only by bad writing and by-the-numbers direction but by a bunch of supporting actors who give uniformly dreadful performances (including a sadly misused Ann Margaret).
What COULD they all have been thinking of?