2004 · action · comedy · thriller
Taxi
Directed by Tim Story1h 37m2004
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.
Our read: Taxi (2004) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · comedy · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- twisty
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How Taxi feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want loud NYC chase comedy with Queen Latifah driving and Fallon flailing.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if dopey buddy-cop silliness and dated 2000s humor grate on you.
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