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It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

WOW, Luc Besson, you've done it again, but this time you have left me hanging. So I know that there will be a SEASON 2, because you can't just leave me waiting around for the next bomb to drop!!!I have enjoyed this series and am looking forward to you continuing to put some action words to the page for SEASON 2.

I'm thankful that I saw this TV Series (Taxi Brooklyn) before seeing these reviews because some of them would've discouraged me from ever seeing the show. Taxi: Brooklyn is a great TV series, with high potential. The only/key reason you may review this show as 'not good' is if you're not paying attention to the details of the characters, yet expecting them to be similar to other cop/TV shows you've seen before. Yes, the actors/actresses in this series are new and a little nervous at first, but like all good things, it takes time--the more you watch, their chemistry gets a lot better and you start to like the show. Also, the plot is like any other cop shows--a cop with personal and career issues, trying to balance/even out the good and the bad...and there're always obstacles. I am very disappointed that this show was canceled by NBC--I would very much like it to continue; PLEASE do not leave things the way the last episode ended.

I mean it isn't terrible, but it isn't good either.First, the premise is just too weak. I can buy that female detective Beckett brings rich Castle into the precinct, but a taxi driver is just too much of a stretch. Both characters and actors are fine, it's just the basic story-line that doesn't hold together.The dialog isn't all that bad either, maybe 7 out of 10.The rest of the cast and characters are okay.Cinematography is okay. Car chases were fine, but two or three per episode was way over the top. They just get boring after a while.The scripts are horrible. There is just too much haphazard action where cat can almost always chase down the runner, but first stopping to handcuff somebody. Finally direction, which could have fixed a lot of the junk in the project, just failed to clean things up. In fact direction added to the demise of the show.In spite of all of this I could suspend reality and watch it. And I liked it. Sometimes a series starts out and is bad from the start (CSI Cyber) but sometimes the series gets better over time. This one didn't (neither did CSI Cyber).

CASTLE has a lot to answer for, convincing producers and networks that if they throw a charming, talented eccentric guy together with an Uptight But Hot Woman Cop With Issues, Magic Will Happen! Case in Point, TAXI BROOKLYN, about a gifted Frenchman of Color taxi driver teaming up with the above-referenced Uptight But Hot Woman Cop With Issues - in her case, involving the mystery surrounding her cop father's death, and her reckless driving that requires her to make regular use of said cabbie.Silly premise? Sure - but so's a horny mystery writer attaching himself to a Hot Woman Cop Trying to Solve Her Mother's Brutal Murder, and thanks to the talent of and chemistry between Nathan Fillion and Stana Katic, CASTLE's been on the air for seven years. Sadly, this show doesn't have any of that - the writing doesn't sound "American" as much as "French TV's Notions of Tough American Cop Shows, Translated Clumsily Into English", the car stunts while nice are filmed in a slam-bang cut style that gives you motion sickness, most of the cast badly does roles they've done well elsewhere, and series lead Chyler Leigh is No Stana Katic in either charm or believability as a female police officer. The only person who emerges from this show with his dignity intact, as far as I can tell, is Jacky Ido as the French cabbie in Brooklyn. WTF was anybody related to this production thinking?