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Taxi 3
2003 Action / Comedy
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Credits
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Director: Gérard Krawczyk
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Script: Luc Besson
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Photo: Gérard Sterin
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Music: DJ Kore, DJ Skalp
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Cast: Samy Naceri (Daniel Morales),
Frédéric Diefenthal (Émilien Coutant-Kerbalec),
Bernard Farcy (Commissaire Gibert),
Ling Bai (Qiu),
Emma Sjöberg (Petra),
Marion Cotillard (Lilly Bertineau),
Edouard Montoute (Alain),
Jean-Christophe Bouvet (Général Edmond Bertineau)
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Country: France
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Language: French
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Runtime: 84 min
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Summary
Buddies Emilien and Daniel are so wrapped up in themselves that they fail to realise they
are soon destined to become fathers. Whilst Daniel continues to soup up his already
ultra-souped-up taxi, Emilien is preoccupied with a band of crooks who disguise themselves
as Father Christmases. The latter are planning a daring bank robbery in Marseilles,
with the help of a young Japanese woman who has managed to wheedle her way into the confidence
of Commissioner Gilbert…
Review
As is often the way with a series of sequels to an initially successful film, there comes
a point at which you have to stop watching and accept that the magic and value of the
original film has been well and truly depleted. This point has unquestionably been
passed with Taxi 3, the third shoddy instalment
in the increasingly tedious Luc Besson produced Taxi
series. The freshness, energy and sense of innocent fun of the first film
has given way to tired, predictable action stunts and offensive, totally unfunny jokes
revolving around racial stereotypes, oral sex and misogynistic stereotyping of women.
It’s derivative, adolescent comic book hash of the worst kind, and deserves to be
given a very, very wide berth. The film's only saving grace is the assurance it
offers that Sylvester Stallone will never be
cast as James Bond (thanks to a silly, and totally irrelevant, pre-credits sequence).
© James Travers 2005
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