Taxi 2

Mar 25, 2000

1h 22m

★ 6.3

France's answer to the Italian job

Overview

A cabdriver and a cop race to Paris to rescue a love interest and the Japanese minister of defense from kidnappers.

Genres

Action

Comedy

Adventure

Crime

Production Companies

ARP Sélection

TF1 Films Production

Leeloo Productions

Le Studio Canal+

Taxi 2 Trailers

Cast

Daniel Morales

Samy Naceri

Émilien Coutant-Kerbalec

Frédéric Diefenthal

Lilly Bertineau

Marion Cotillard

Petra

Emma Wiklund

Commissaire Gibert

Bernard Farcy

Général Edmond Bertineau

Jean-Christophe Bouvet

Mother

Frédérique Tirmont

French Minister

Marc Faure

Japanese Minister

Haruhiko Hirata

Yuli

Tsuyu Shimizu

Katano

Ko Suzuki

Yuke Tsumoto

Yoshi Oida

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7.5

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6.2

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7.1

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7.7

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5.2

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5.5

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5.6

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5.3

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