A mouthy and feisty taxicab driver has hot tips for a green and inept cop set on solving a string of New York City bank robberies committed by a quartet of female Brazilian bank robbers.
I expected this to be much funnier: Latifah coasts on her charm, and Fallon seems incapable of playing an actual character.
– Hank Sartin,
Chicago Reader,
27 Feb 2007
rotten:
The glitch, beyond the rote story, is that while she's an infectiously upbeat screen presence, Latifah is not, inherently, a major laugh generator, and neither, it would appear, is Fallon.
– Chuck Wilson,
L.A. Weekly,
14 Oct 2004
rotten:
Taxi is one of those madcap comedies where they show all those wacky bloopers during the closing credits to show you how much fun everyone had on the set. Maybe that's because they were in denial.
– Richard Roeper,
Ebert & Roeper,
11 Oct 2004
rotten:
[Fallon] doesn't so much act as show up, and his utter lack of personality generates a vacuum that the movie cannot overcome.