Taxi Movie Review 2004

Nowhere comedy loosely based on director Luc Besson's 1998 French film. Stripped of his driver's license, inept New York cop Andy Washburn (Fallon, a negligible screen presence) enlists the aid of dynamo cabbie Belle Williams (Queen Latifah) to drive him to the scene of a bank robbery. The heist turns out to have been committed by a quartet of gorgeous Brazilian gals who are also supermodels (led by Bundchen in her, um, acting debut). Ann-Margaret lends support in a wincing comic turn as Andy's lush of a mother. The Queen, as always, is an irrepressible delight and the only reason to spend any time with this hack.

Distribution

Fox Home Entertainment, PO Box 900, Beverly Hills, CA 90213, Phone: (310)369-3900, Toll-free: 888-223-4FOX, Fax: (310)369-5811, URL: http://www.foxmovies.com/index1.html, Remarks: Also known as Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 97 minutes.
Originally from United States.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Action-Comedy, Cabbies, New York, New York, Comic Cops, Heists: Banks, Model Citizens, Buddy Cops, Stolen from France

Screenplay

Ben Garant, Thomas Lennon, Jim Kouf

Cast

Jimmy Fallon, Jennifer Esposito, Ann-Margret, Henry Simmons, Christian Kane, Queen Latifah, Gisele Bundchen, Ana Christine de Oliveira, Ingrid Vandebosch, Amadel

Cinematography

Vance Burberry

Director

Tim Story

Music

Christophe Beck

Other

David Obermeyer, Stuart Levy, Sanja Milkovic Hays, Mayne Berke

Producer

Luc Besson, Europacorp, 20th Century-Fox