(French: Taxi Cinq ) is a 2018 French action comedy film that serves as the fifth installment in the popular Taxi franchise. Released on April 11, 2018, it arrived 11 years after Taxi 4 and exactly 20 years after the original film. Directed by Franck Gastambide , who also co-wrote the script alongside Luc Besson and Stéphane Kazandjian, the film marked a significant departure for the series by featuring an entirely new lead cast. Plot Summary
: The film was a commercial success in France, earning roughly $38.6–42 million globally. Taxxi 5
The film is notable for being the first in the series without original stars Samy Naceri or Frédéric Diefenthal. as Sylvain Marot Malik Bentalha as Eddy Maklouf (French: Taxi Cinq ) is a 2018 French
The story follows (played by Franck Gastambide), an elite Parisian police officer and exceptional driver who is demoted to the municipal police in Marseille after an affair with a superior's wife. Once in Marseille, the former commissioner and now Mayor Gibert (Bernard Farcy) tasks him with dismantling a gang of Italian jewelry thieves who use high-powered Ferraris as getaway vehicles. Plot Summary : The film was a commercial
: Reviews were largely negative. Critics at The Hollywood Reporter described it as a "five-car pileup of a comedy" that relied on low-brow humor. It currently holds a 0% score from critics on Rotten Tomatoes based on a limited number of reviews.