An average movie

Even though I always had a hard time with Luc Besson’s work, I have to admit that, for the last 30 years already, he has been probably the most ambitious French director and his movies were always intriguing to watch. However, it all changed with ‘Taxi’. Indeed, it was the first time that Besson was written a movie for someone else and, even though this movie was truly dreadful in my opinion, it became a massive box-office hit, especially in France. From then on, Besson would become some kind of factory releasing one brainless action flick after the other (by now, the French writer/producer/director has already reached 60 writing credits!). This movie was basically one of those. Indeed, even though it was watchable, with a strong Jet Li at the top of his game, the story was just way too generic to hold my attention and I really had a hard time to care about the damned thing. At least, this movie would be one of the very last opportunities to see the lovely Bridget Fonda who would soon go into early retirement following this flick. Anyway, to conclude, I thought it was really average and I don’t think it is really worth a look, except maybe if you a die-hard fan of the genre.