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Audio Format: Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, DTS 5.1 Video Format: Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35:1 Languages: French Subtitles: English, Korean Region Code: ALL Year Made: 2000 Running Time: 88
Many films cry out for a sequel to develop their themes, take their characters onto new adventures and experiences - Taxi is almost certainly not one of them. Scripted and produced by Luc Besson, it was a raucous, fast-moving chase comedy set on the streets of Marseilles. Now, Besson has returned with more motorised mayhem, again featuring the anti-authoritarian speed freak Daniel (Samy Naceri), his lovelorn cop friend Emilien (Frederic Di??thal), their respective girlfriends, an assortment of hammy villains and an improbable action plot.
Daniel is still an unlicensed cab driver, his souped-up taxi now with a top speed of 206mph and the improbable addition of wings; Emilien is still attempting to woo the glacial Petra (Emma Sjoberg). In an attempt to sweeten his girlfriend Lilly (Marion Cotillard), Daniel gives her father a lift to the airport to meet a Japanese dignitary, and is plunged into another chaotic crime when a Yakuza gang kidnap the visitor and Petra as part of a complex assassination plot.
The pivot of the film is, as before, a series of well-orchestrated car chases, with the stunt drivers infinitely more important than the stars, the plot or the dialogue. Not content with tearing up the streets down South, the climax literally parachutes Daniel and Emilien into Paris for a sequence of automotive destruction that recalls the excesses of The Blues Brothers in its fetishistic assaults on bodywork and nerves.
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