This is probably the biggest non-event of the year. NOTHING happens in this film... Still, the opening sequence (with a cameo by Stallone) is okay (though the great stunts are badly shot) and the Bond-style credit sequence is very funny. After that though, it's a dull story about a bunch of Santa-Claus bank robbers who happen to be Chinese who plan to rob the biggest bank in Marseille. But there are no action sequences, no plot to speak of, no impressive stunts, and a last-minute change of locale from Marseille to Switzerland just to have the supertaxi driving along ski trails. There isn't even a climactic stunt sequence to speak of. Luc Besson specializes in making really bad mainstream entertainment which doesn't even obey the rules of the genre, replacing them with lame banter between the leads and some half-hearted gags ridiculing the police. Leave after the credits, there's really nothing worth staying for.
