slightlymad22 Continuing my plan to watch every Sly Stallone movie in his filmography in order, I come to his cameo in Taxi 3.Plot In A Paragraph: A gang of thieves calling themselves the Santa Claus Gang are running riot, and the police are nowhere near catching them. Police Captain Gilbert is distracted by a Chinese reporter writing a story on his squad, detective Emilien's wife has just announced that she's pregnant, and taxi driver Daniel is in the midst of a relationship crisis. After a string of mistakes in which the thieves outsmart the police several times with a reporter there to report on it all, Daniel steps in to help out.The tile sequence is fun, as its basically a rip off various James Bond titles Director Gerard Krawczyk had directed writer Luc Besson's last movie 'Wasabi' starring Jean Reno. Funnily enough, in the street market, you can clearly see behind Émilien in at least two shots a poster for 'Wasabi'Stallone briefly pops up for a taxi ride in the first couple of mins.

matroskin72 I absolutely LOVE this movie!!! Highly recommend it to everyone!!! My next vacation destination – Marseille, France!!! (June 2005) I love their acting, storyline is great too! i have seen that movie at least 20 times now and counting! If i didn't have a g/f, i d definitely fall in love with Marion Catillard - she is wonderful:) the only thing is - Luc Besson shows police as complete idiots, which sometimes little too much, but since i myself have lots of tickets for fast driving, i agree with him:)Samy and Frederic (Daniel and Emelian)- cool "couple" - police officer and a professional driver again together, this time they have to solve Emelian's case - catch gang of fake "Santa Clauses", who rob Marseille's banks (i was wondering - how much money is in Marseille, if they keep rubbing it for 3 movies straight!). At the same time they both find out that their g/friends are pregnant (Emelian finds out this goods news when his g/f is 8 months down the road!!!) cause he is so devoted to the problem of catching these gang dudes...Well - have a great time watching it!!!

clibil This is an example of witty French comedy at its best. The production crew are clearly really enjoying themselves now, and from opening titles worthy of 007's Maurice Binder to plot steals from Lethal Weapon 4, the film merges slapstick with biting French satire and drops in a spoonful of Feydeau farce for good measure. I am sorry it is not out with English subtitles yet because it means that only French-speakers can really enjoy it. If you do view it, there is one question you will have to ask yourselves - was Sylvester Stallone dubbed or is that really how he speaks French ? There may not be a Taxi 4 - but I'll be in the queue to buy the DVD if there is.

abisio 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.