So Jimmy Fallon leaves "Saturday Night Live" and immediately starts making bad movies. And the circle of life continues.
"Taxi" is the sort of bad movie that any hack director with a big budget, willing actors, and a shortage of good ideas can make. Like most action-comedies of recent years, it believes "loud and fast" are the same thing as "funny," and also that African-Americans being loose and sassy while their white counterparts are bumbling and squeamish is sure-fire comedy. On that skeleton of a concept the film hangs its flimsy plot. A New York City bike messenger named Belle (Queen Latifah) has just achieved her goal of becoming a cab driver, and she comes to the job prepared: She has spent the last five years pimping out her vehicle with various turbo boosters and other "Fast and the Furious" -style paraphernalia. How she obtained a New York City yellow cab to work on in her garage all that time is anybody's guess, as is the question of how she convinced her new cabbie bosses to let her drive it, especially with all its illegal alterations, rather than a company-issued vehicle.
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