Before talking about the movie, we have to start with last year's World Cup in Germany. The under-appreciated French team reached the final all the way under the leadership of Lao Qi. Although he did not win the championship in the end, Lao Qi also staged the famous top man event, but the runner-up results and outstanding performance set off another football craze in France, and this craze also directly affected the movie. In fact, the element of football has already appeared in the second episode (the French team won the World Cup in 1998), and Daniel, who drove a taxi, wore a No. 10 jersey of the French team, even when he went to see When my father-in-law was old, he just put on another shirt outside. In this new episode, though, football is more than just a symbol, it's taking up its fair share of content.
In the beginning, the first task of Daniel and his super taxi was to send France international Cisse to the stadium. Cisse is now playing for Marseille (Marseille is the background city of the "Taxi Express" series), this gentleman has been unlucky in recent years. He was kicked by Zheng Zhi in a warm-up match with the Chinese team before the World Cup and broke his leg. He missed the World Cup and recovered from injury It's been more than half a year, but now it's the star of Marseille. The fans in the movie were very frenetic and even caused a traffic accident just to see him.
After completing the mission to send Cisse, Daniel goes to watch his sons' ball game with his old police friend Emily. Daniel's son has good football skills, but he always gets red cards; Emily's son, under his excessive care, wears protective gear and a helmet to play, which is quite funny. Of course, the most funny thing is the police chief. He has always hated football, but he finally became a football coach. He was not addicted to the game and showed off his skills.
The police chief's final blow seems to have learned from Zhou Xingxing's "Shaolin Soccer". In addition, in addition to injecting anesthesia into his feet, the director even used the super weapon of "domestic 007" - the God of the Box, referred to as "the God of the Box" - when arresting people. As a result, because the angle and strength were not adjusted properly, the director flew high and drew a beautiful arc in front of the moon like "ET". As the producer Luc Besson, it seems that not only is interested in Oriental Kung Fu, but also uses a lot of Zhou's unreasonable tricks in the movie.
The gentlemen of the police, represented by the chief, bear most of the laughs in the movie. In fact, from the first episode, conceited policemen and conceited criminals have become the object of ridicule and ridicule. They are self-righteous but utterly stupid, representing justice and fairness but racial discrimination and false public benefit. In the latest episode, the police also carried on this "good tradition" very well. At the beginning of the film, the director instructed the special police to arrest an unsuspecting cleaning lady who was cleaning the room, and the method was quite "brutal": dragged down the stairs after covering it with a bag, and the sound of hitting the stairs was "horrific" ( This is the most hilarious scene I think). Then the chief suspects Cisse as an illegal immigrant because of his skin color. His subordinates were secretly smoking the confiscated marijuana at the police station.
And the director often boasted about how good he was, and he took the lead in every battle, but every time he was injured and broken, it was unbearable to see. This time, I came prepared, with heavy weapons, holding double guns and being chained, just like Stallone's reincarnation. In addition, with the help of missiles, the firepower is strong, and there is no distinction between the enemy and the enemy, only one happy.
After repeating this several times, the habit gradually changed, and the incompetent policeman looked cute. Not only that, but the hilarious cops are even a bit aggressive, stealing the limelight from the Super Taxi. This momentum has been evident since episode 3. Funny became the center, and the taxi became a foil, not only the performance but even the appearances were few. I wonder if the screenwriter forgot that the title of the film was "TAXI" ("Taxi"). The continuation and expansion of a style resulted in an imbalance in the overall style of the film.
Maybe the super taxi is useless because the limelight has been exhausted in the first two episodes of the series. Especially in the almost perfect second episode, Daniel and his taxi run through the whole film, interlocking with the plot, and staged many good scenes. At first transport pregnant women and compete with racing cars. Then he accepted an unexpected mission to send the general and future father-in-law to the airport, and became a UFO that "landed" the airport. Finally airborne in Paris, on the streets and the Japanese gangster's Mitsubishi car staged the final chase climax. The emergence of the classic also means that the latecomers are insurmountable and mediocre.
So, in the final analysis, the screenwriters lacked the creativity to update, and couldn't make more updated articles on the plot and taxis, so they had to use humor to make up the space. In the new episode, all that's left of Super Taxi is the long-stale Super Speed and Super Drag show. In the face of classics, I wonder if the screenwriter wants to avoid its edge and find another way. However, behind a lot of funny (personally I think there are a lot of funny places in this episode, which is better than the third episode), it is a simple story of a mentally retarded policeman catching a thief. The screenwriter is really incompetent, not "powerless".
The new episode "Taxi Express" brings a new "taxi" craze. But the loss of the most distinctive element and the oversimplification of the plot have also made the latest episode of the series a lot of controversy. Is this long-lost return a new beginning or a sign of the end? If there are no convincing new ideas, then stop here and let the classics remain in memory.
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