Taxi 2 (2000) on Netflix
Japan's defense minister arrives in Marseille to rate how the city police take on gangs. When kidnappers seize him and detective Petra, officer Émilien and taxi driver Daniel Morales give chase.
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Plot summary
A Japanese defense minister is bound for Paris, where his country and France are to sign a weapons contract. Before that, he visits Marseille to watch the city police demonstrate their tactics against gangs, with officers staging mock attacks on him as a test. A yakuza group abducts him during the visit. Petra, a detective and the girlfriend of police inspector Émilien, is taken too. Émilien sets out to free the minister and Petra and to restore the standing of his department, and he turns again to Daniel Morales, a taxi driver whose fast driving is called on to help.
Cast
- Ko Suzukias Katano
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Taxi 2 (2000)
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- Stunt coordinator Rémy Julienne raised the springboard's incline and the car's speed after an unsuccessful first try at the jump. On the second take the taxi landed a few meters further than expected and hit 41-year-old cameraman Alain Dutartre, who died a few hours later in the hospital.
- Stunt coordinator Rémy Julienne was given a one-year suspended jail sentence and fined €13,000; Luc Besson, Grenet and director Gerard Krawczyk were initially cleared, but the Paris Court of Appeal convicted EuropaCorp of involuntary manslaughter and ordered it to pay €100,000, cutting Julienne's sentence to six months.
- Taxi 2 opened nationwide on a record 830 screens on 29 March 2000 and set opening day and week records in France: its 759,512 first-day admissions beat Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar, and over 3 million for the week beat The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time.
