''Taxi 4'' (stylized on-screen as ''T4Xi''; french: Taxi Quatre) is a 2007 French

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directed by

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and the fourth installment of the ''Taxi'' film series. It is a sequel to ''

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'' and followed by '' Taxi 5''. As with all the other films in the franchise Gallic ''Taxi'', Samy Naceri plays taxi driver "Daniel Morales", this time in a

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, unlike the 406 in the previous films.

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is "Émilien Coutant-Kerbalec", whilst Jean-Christophe Bouvet reprises his role as "General Bertineau" yet again. The film also features French

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Plot

A Belgian criminal, wanted all over Europe for his crimes, is in the custody of the Police Department of

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to be watched for a few hours before transfer to a prison in the Congo. Unfortunately, Émilien (

) is tricked by the villain and convinced to let the prisoner go. After these events, he is fired, but luckily for him, his friend Daniel ( Samy Naceri) helps him one more time by telling him the location where the criminal is located, having been the taxi driver who drove him after he left the police station, not knowing he was a criminal. With Daniel's skills and his new

, Émillen seeks to capture the criminal to restore his job back.

Cast

* Samy Naceri as Daniel Morales *

as Émilien Coutant-Kerbalec * Bernard Farcy as Commissaire Gibert * Jean-Christophe Bouvet as Général Edmond Bertineau * Edouard Montoute as Alain * Emma Sjöberg-Wiklund as Petra *

as himself *

François Damiens François Georges Henri Marie Ghislain Joseph Damiens (; born 17 January 1973) is a Belgian actor. Career He has appeared in more than fifty films since 2000. He started out doing hidden camera videos in the 90s and became widely popular in B ...

as Serge *

Jean-Luc Couchard Jean-Luc Couchard (born 14 July 1969) is a Belgian actor. Theater Filmography External links * 1969 births Living people People from Limbourg 20th-century French male actors 21st-century Belgian male actors Belgian male film a ...

as Le Belge

Production

TBA

Reception

Box office

On the opening day, 450,000 people attended in France, with 43,000 in Paris alone. ''T4xi''s Canadian premiere was at the Just for Laughs Comedia Film Festival on 22 July 2007, a week before wide release.Juste pour rire 2007 - Comedia - Taxi 4
(accessed 15 July 2007)

References

External links

* * * {{Taxi 2007 films 2000s action comedy films 2000s crime comedy films Films about organized crime in France Films directed by Gérard Krawczyk French sequel films French action comedy films French crime comedy films Films produced by Luc Besson Taxi (film series) 2007 comedy films