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Taxi (1998)
Cool, Clean, Comic, Car Caper on Crack!
Why do people take films such as this SO seriously. Besson doesn't have to make the same film every time, he might want to do something for a laugh at some point, and that's what he's done here. The film is COOL to the maximum from the setting to the acting to the location to the soundtrack. It is a well rounded little baby of a film that Besson has knocked up in his spare time and just proves what an all round top bloke he is. Go see this film with an open mind and you can't fault it simple easy clean storyline lets the movie flow and move easily and when you stack on the petrolhead action on top of the layer of humour (which was okay) and put between good start sequence and highly amusing plot ending bread, you've got a veritable good movie sandwich. Once again French film is proven to be quite brilliant. Give this to some blockbuster US outfit and they'll create some half-assed dross that feels like walking through bubblegum. Instead its quick, slick and an all round top flick. Only the Italian Job comes close.
Dobermann (1997)
Slick, Ultra-violent French action shootup at its best and baddest.
Sometimes it'll make ya squeem, sometimes it'll make you laugh out loud but then I guess that's up to the kinda person you are. I watched this film in the cheapest tackiest cinema I have ever been in and still enjoyed it immensely. If you are looking for an uncomplex story of bank robbery and bad versus the very bad, French cinema is one of the best places to look. Not only here do you get a shallow quality reviled and still unmatched by mainstream blockbuster Americanised film but some of the directing cinematography and down right rudeness of this film makes it exceptionally pleasing to the eye. It's chic violence at its max, mixed up with a soupson of humour and a dash of non excessive but pleasingly aggressive and speedy action. After a time I didn't realise the subtitles were there. Oh yeah and boy is Cassel a mean bit of loveable rogue. Kapow! It's quick and very smooth from start to finish.