Taxi
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: October 6, 2004 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
27
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 27 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
9
Negative:
17
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
63
USA TodayClaudia Puig
A surprisingly funny, female-driven romp — as long as you don't question too many plot particulars. Read full review
60
EmpireChris Hewitt
It's loud, it's stupid, yet against all the odds, enjoyable. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneRobert K. Elder
Riddled with comic potholes. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
Too much of Taxi is just tired. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
Director Tim Story's film has two speeds: pedal-to-metal and screeching halt. The former is guaranteed to make the audience carsick, the latter to give it whiplash. Read full review
50
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
Frivolous but fun, somewhere between a comic "French Connection" and the craziest Nascar race you never saw. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
How one likes Taxi has everything to do with how one responds to the hapless cop character, played by Jimmy Fallon. Read full review
40
Chicago ReaderHank Sartin
I expected this to be much funnier: Latifah coasts on her charm and Fallon seems incapable of playing an actual character. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesCarina Chocano
Full of car chases, weak jokes and scenes so meandering they make "Saturday Night Live" look like a paragon of brevity and wit. Read full review
40
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
I haven't seen the original, but I can vouch for the clumsiness of the new version. As usual, though, Queen Latifah is an indomitable, if sometimes undirectable, comic force.
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam Lacey
Very little of it works. Read full review
30
Village VoiceJessica Winter
Throughout this Americanization of the Luc Besson–scripted French hit, Latifah itches to check her watch, Fallon appears mortified, and only Ann-Margret mainlines any comic adrenalin. Read full review
30
The New York TimesDave Kehr
A bland, half-finished film that seems to have been conceived as off-peak cable fodder. Read full review
30
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Queen Latifah is a natural-born charmer, but there's only so much she can do when paired with a costar so irritating it's hard not to squirm when he's on the screen, which is most of the time. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
This thoroughly repetitive, ill-conceived and poorly executed effort -- with an emphasis on the word "effort" -- defeats these two talented people more often than not. Read full review
30
VarietyRobert Koehler
Commits any number of comedic violations during an aimless pursuit of laughs. Read full review
30
Dallas ObserverLuke Y. Thompson
It would take the ghost of Stanley Kubrick to get great performances out of Jimmy Fallon, Queen Latifah, and supermodel Gisele Bündchen, and Tim, you're no Stanley. Read full review
30
Washington PostMichael O'Sullivan
Goes nowhere fast. Read full review
30
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
Feels stitched together from bits and pieces of lame '80s buddy-cop movies. Read full review
30
L.A. WeeklyChuck Wilson
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. Read full review
25
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
Bad as he is, Fallon cannot claim Taxi's worst moment. That belongs to Ann-Margret. Read full review
25
Baltimore SunChris Kaltenbach
Taxi's only saving grace is an inexplicable, though delightful, turn by Ann-Margret as Andy's ever-tipsy mom. She's a stitch, and about 100 times better than her surrounding material. Read full review
25
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
In a film that is wall-to-wall idiocy, the most tiresome delusion is that car chases are funny. Read full review
25
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
An action-choked dud in which even the closing outtakes barely deserve to be left on the cutting-room floor? Read full review
25
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
If this is magic, I'll take "Gigli." Read full review
12
New York PostMegan Lehmann
This witless action comedy begins to insult the audience's intelligence from the opening scene. Read full review
0
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
Very nearly as entertaining as watching a potato bake. Read full review
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