Taxi 3
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Taxi 3 is a 2003 French film directed by Gérard Krawczyk. It is a sequel to Taxi written by Luc Besson and directed by Gérard Pirès in 1998 and to Taxi 2 directed by Gérard Krawczyk in 2000.
A gang of thieves calling themselves the Santa Claus Gang are wreaking havoc and the police are unable to keep up. Police Superintendent Gilbert (played by Bernard Farcy) is distracted by a Chinese journalist (Bai Ling) writing a story on his squad. Detective Emilien's wife, Petra, has just announced that she's pregnant and taxi driver Daniel (Samy Naceri) is in the midst of a relationship crisis. After a string of mistakes in which the thieves outsmart the police time and time again with a journalist Emilien is kidnapped and its revealed that the journalist is the leader of the santa claus gang the police go on a search and the journalist sets a trap a giant ball in 5 minutes will crush emilien then daniel rushes in with the taxi and rescues him they go to the hideout in the swiss mountains then the journalist is arested and gibert lands in a pool of ice then petra gives birth and daniel proposes to lilly and then gibert is seen in a wheelchair covered in ice
Trivia
- Sylvester Stallone had a cameo at the beginning of the film as a taxi passenger with his voice dubbed as he cannot speak French.
