Taxi (2004/I)

Calificación de los usuarios:

4.2/10   

Director:

Tim Story

Escritores (WGA):

Luc Besson (earlier screenplay)
Robert Ben Garant (screenplay) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

8 octubre 2004 (USA)

Género:

Acción | Comedia | Crimen | Suspenso

Frase comercial:

Take a Ride on the Wild Side.

Plot:

A mouthy and feisty taxicab driver (Latifah) has hot tips for a green and inept cop (Fallon) set on solving a string of New York City bank robberies commited by a quartet of female Brazilian bank robbers.

Plot Keywords:

Brazilian | New York City | Bank Robbery | Taxicab | Undercover

Premios:

1 win & 5 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Big budget comedy with cut-rate jokes...

Reparto

Queen Latifah	...	Isabelle 'Belle' Williams
Jimmy Fallon	...	Andrew 'Andy' Washburn
Henry Simmons	...	Jesse
Jennifer Esposito	...	Lt. Marta Robbins
Gisele Bündchen	...	Vanessa
Ana Cristina de Oliveira	...	Redhead
Ingrid Vandebosch	...	Third Robber
Magali Amadei	...	Fourth Robber
Ann-Margret	...	Washburn's Mom
Christian Kane	...	Agent Mullins
Boris McGiver	...	Franklin
Adrian Martinez	...	Brasilian Man
Joe Lisi	...	Mr. Scalia
Bryna Weiss	...	Mrs. Scalia
GQ	...	Stopwatch Messenger

También conocida como:

New York Taxi (France)
Taxi 2004 (UK) (promotional title)
Taxi (Argentina) (video title) (Mexico) [es]
Taxi: Derrape total (Spain) [es]

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for language, sensuality and brief violence.

Duración:

97 min | USA:104 min (extended version)

País:

USA | France

Idioma:

Inglés | Portugués | Español

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

DTS | Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

Norway:7 | Canada:PG (Ontario) | Iceland:10 (original rating) | Iceland:12 (video rating) | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Brazil:12 | Finland:K-11 | Germany:6 | Netherlands:MG6 | Philippines:PG-13 | Singapore:PG | UK:12A | USA:PG-13 | Ireland:12PG | Ireland:15 (DVD rating) | South Korea:12

Locaciones de Filmación:

23rd St. & Madison Avenue, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Compañía:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Trivialidades:

Based on _Taxi (1998)_ a French film written by Luc Besson in 30 days while waiting for Columbia Pictures to commit to the production go-ahead for The Fifth Element (1997).

Errores:

Errores Reales: The Lieutenat tells Washburn that he is "Not suspended, but fired". While a superior officer has the ability to remove an officer from service and suspend, they cannot summarily fire the officer. Firing an officer involves a formal hearing before termination can take place.

Citas:

Washburn: You ask me where I'm from? What part am I from? Eeh... What part of Havanna? You know... ah... around the corner of... eum... Castro... Street.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon: (#1.1)" (2009)

Banda de Sonido:

Battle of Bongo Hill

Big budget comedy with cut-rate jokes...

Slick, flashy film, a semi-remake of Luc Besson's "Taxi" from 1998, here Americanized as an urban action-comedy. Queen Latifah plays smart-mouthed cabbie with a souped-up vehicle in New York City who inadvertently partners with stumble bum cop Jimmy Fallon to crack a major crime case. Film should have relied more on Latifah's natural sass and less on Fallon's white-bread, dim-witted act (race is a constant punchline in the script, and Fallon is just there as Exhibit A). Jennifer Esposito is wonderful as a no-nonsense police lieutenant, Ann-Margret is a stitch as Fallon's tippling mother, and John Sierros (Broadway actor shamefully credited as 'Fat Cop') shines as a bamboozled police officer, but what happened to Queen Latifah? She gets a few good cracks in, but there's no character here for her to play; she sticks to her sarcastic persona and puts everyone down, but her role is depressingly one-dimensional. Comedy has a fast pace, impressive cinematography (although the swooping crane shots in traffic get repetitive) and some good car chases, but the screenplay needed an overhaul. ** from ****