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Taxi (2004)
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Movie Review by AJ 
August 14th, 2006
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Based on the French film of the same name by Luc Besson, which I have not seen, Taxi takes an intriguing premise (a cop commandeers a taxi and orders the cabbie to chase the crooks he's after) and duly proceeds to crap all over it. Queen Latifah, making yet another bad decision after her Oscar nomination for 2002's dazzling Chicago, embodies almost every single spunky black woman cliché you can think of, and Jimmy Fallon--always likeable but rarely funny--completely grinds his potentially amusing role into the ground. The audience elicits nary a laugh for almost the entire running time. Director Tim Story is not a good visual artist, I want to stress that as much as possible, but in some of the earlier car chase sequences, there's a flash of panache that ever so sadly demonstrates the fun kind of movie that this could have been, but is far from being.
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 | B Movie Ben
Mar 14, 2007 8:54 AM
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| I am so ashamed to ad,it that I have seen this movie. It's not the worst flick I have seen, but it it hard to recall one at this time. |
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