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Overview
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Director:
Writer:
Luc Besson (writer)
Release Date:
29 January 2003 (Belgium) more
Tagline:
No speed limits the next 90 min.
Plot:
A gang of thieves calling themselves the Santa Claus Gang are wreaking havoc, and the police can't keep up... more | add synopsis
NewsDesk:
Box Office Plummets in France
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 18 March 2003)
User Comments:
The type of comedy I would like Hollywood to do more (31 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Samy Naceri | ... | Daniel Morales |
| Frédéric Diefenthal | ... | Émilien Coutant-Kerbalec |
| Bernard Farcy | ... | Commissaire Gibert |
 | Ling Bai | ... | Qiu (as Bai Ling) |
| Emma Wiklund | ... | Petra (as Emma Sjöberg) |
 | Marion Cotillard | ... | Lilly Bertineau |
| Edouard Montoute | ... | Alain |
| Jean-Christophe Bouvet | ... | Général Edmond Bertineau |
| Léon-Pierre Mondini | ... | Policier |
| Bernard Llopis | ... | Policier |
| Jean-Louis Schlesser | ... | Policier |
| Jean-Pierre Mas | ... | Policier |
| Michel Neugarten | ... | Policier |
| Patrice Abbou | ... | Rachid |
| Claude Sese | ... | Planton (as Claude Sesé) |
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84 min | Spain:90 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Finland:K-11 | Netherlands:AL (DVD rating) | UK:15 | Netherlands:AL | Denmark:7 | France:U | Singapore:PG | South Korea:12 | Spain:T | Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) | Germany:12
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The music that the general's driver is listening to, moments before he crashes, is actually Greece's national anthem. more
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Continuity: In the final assault, we see everyone from the airborne commando hook up just before they jump from the plane as if they had an automatic parachute, but the moment after they jump in free fall. more
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Featured in "Troldspejlet: (#31.2)" (2004) more
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The TAXI series (this is obviously the third installment) are highly successful French movies which for mysterious reasons are never distributed in USA (or at least in Miami).
Created and produced by the legendary and admired (ex-director) Luc Besson (you remember him from masterpieces like The Professional, La Femme Nikita, The Big Blue or The Fifth Element) he managed to create a mix of action and comedy, with some of ingenuous gags, some adults jokes and plenty of action (mostly car stunts) and very mild violence and overall VERY HUMAN.
TAXI 3 tracks Emilien's (the police officer) obsession to catch a gang disguised as Santa Claus with the help of Daniel (the nuts taxi driver) both trying to overcome their conjugal issues and the pregnancy of their wives. The story is very simple (as is the movie short), so everything rest on the characters (some of them very funny and some not so) and on the impressive stunts which are really very good and a lot more realistic than the computer generated car chases of Bad Boys II.
As I said before, it is really a pity this funny movies get no distribution here. Of course Hollywood can make things like this. Technically better probably but without the natural grace and believability of this very sympathetic group of actors.