Albert comes to town with a dream of starting his own cab company but needs to motivate Harold's employees to want to make something out of themselves.
It is only when Albert is kidnapped that the cabbies must decide whether or not they are loyal to Albert and his cause......
When Schumacher makes good movies, he does it via the exploitation route, his best films, Falling Down, The Lost Boys, and Phone Booth were high concept thrillers, based around power, wealth, and status.
When he does bad, which unfortunately is the majority of the time, they are disasters for sure, but they are unbelievably watchable, whatever you think about Batman and Robin, when you come across it, you always tend to watch it until the end.
And while this tries to capture an element of goofball comedy to the proceedings, it's just too dark, too profane, and too adult to be anything more than a curioso piece of wannabe eighties exploitation.
The bottom line is that this should have been a film for the family, ironically , when I saw the poster with a smiling Mr. T covering almost all of it, I thought that this would be a throwaway cash in of the man, but no, he's just a supporting character.
Apart from Baldwin, the rest of the characters are highly unlikeable. We have the racist bigot, hiding the fact that he went to college, and keeps getting angry when people want to help.
The textbook cab drivers from the rival firm who are a lot better and let them know it on a regular basis.
And there's Gary Busey playing nothing more than a psychopathic sexually repressed Elvis wannabe.
And there's a subplot involving some crooks.
It's like a carry on movie made by Troma, and it's as bad as it sounds.
Luckily the film vanished without a trace, because at the end of the day, its a nasty, dirty film, with nudity and swearing in the film that doesn't need to be....
It is only when Albert is kidnapped that the cabbies must decide whether or not they are loyal to Albert and his cause......
When Schumacher makes good movies, he does it via the exploitation route, his best films, Falling Down, The Lost Boys, and Phone Booth were high concept thrillers, based around power, wealth, and status.
When he does bad, which unfortunately is the majority of the time, they are disasters for sure, but they are unbelievably watchable, whatever you think about Batman and Robin, when you come across it, you always tend to watch it until the end.
And while this tries to capture an element of goofball comedy to the proceedings, it's just too dark, too profane, and too adult to be anything more than a curioso piece of wannabe eighties exploitation.
The bottom line is that this should have been a film for the family, ironically , when I saw the poster with a smiling Mr. T covering almost all of it, I thought that this would be a throwaway cash in of the man, but no, he's just a supporting character.
Apart from Baldwin, the rest of the characters are highly unlikeable. We have the racist bigot, hiding the fact that he went to college, and keeps getting angry when people want to help.
The textbook cab drivers from the rival firm who are a lot better and let them know it on a regular basis.
And there's Gary Busey playing nothing more than a psychopathic sexually repressed Elvis wannabe.
And there's a subplot involving some crooks.
It's like a carry on movie made by Troma, and it's as bad as it sounds.
Luckily the film vanished without a trace, because at the end of the day, its a nasty, dirty film, with nudity and swearing in the film that doesn't need to be....