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
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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