Taximetristi

A good movie, not a great one, but a good one. Some characters are strong and the actors that protraied them did their job. The story is pretty good, some slices of what happens in the city at night, with happiness and sadness, with joy and anger, love and hate, it's all there. For some of them it could have done a bit more, to offer a context, or to find out what happened next, but in the end, as a taxi driver, this is exactly what you see: take people from point A to point B, drop them off and that's it. You go back to your live, you don't know what happend to the ones you travelled with. Good job!

This is no gem, no revelation, no world changer, not polished, no kind art, but also no fault.

The story is very Romanian in the cultural sense, there is no base line, it starts up, it goes down fast, then up, then down etc, and then in the end it goes really down, but then life continues, despite everything else.

Once in the story, which presents the fauna of nightlife for backside couches of taxis in Bucharest, one gets to de-bone each vertebrate in the same high-up vs low-down style of the coin and back-side situation. And it works, it feels a little short, with less of the background included, but it goes bullseye to the problems, the nature of people, the characters, and it obtains in the viewer, at least the one accepting the screen story, a real development.

Aiming for that base line, that one needs to put its life in balance.

The actors are really great. In some parts you can see they play a part, but in smaller roles nothing major. The dialogue feels natural, small parts where it seems scripted. The plot is really interesting. It's also funny I laughed a lot. To be honest it's a lot better than I expected. The only issue I had is that I wanted more of it. I think the industry in Romania just gets better and better.

I didnt mind the swearing, It s a reality we live in, people swear a lot. A lot of movies have a lot of swears not only Romanian productions, so I think people who talk badly about this movie should start watching Disney Channel and stop complaining.

I also liked the story, It was cohesive and well tought.

I will give it a 9/10 just because It felt a little scripted at times. But if you compare it with Teambuilding this one is a 10/10.

Why is the movie so high rated? Just because it shows really well our reality that most of viewers live in?

• "Funny"

I barely smiled twice with no laughing at all the entire movie. It is supposed to be a comedy. Some other users said they were crying. I have absolutely no clue why. There is a somehow sad part, but I've seen muuuuuuuuch better emotions presented in a lot of other movies.

• "Made me cry"

Spoiler-free, what happens "sad" in the end is a very childish situation based on lack of communication between 2 characters. All main characters are over 30 years old. I am in my 20s and can still say they were childish discussions.

• Lack of a story

The movie is more like a collection of little stories. More than half of the script is based on 2 taxi drivers having some car rides that do not lead anywhere.

• Lack of character development

• "It is extremely realistic"

First of all, it is your reality. In mine, there is extremely few swearing. Secondly, so what it is realistic? Seen so many movies and series with realistic events that made me feel something. This movie just made me disappointed for losing my time.

One of the better Romanian scripts for a comedy from the last 10-20 years. Obscenities aside, its vignettes are pretty good and tell a deeper story but the story from underneath it all is the one that is grounded and pretty real, emotion wise. We get to know these two characters, these two sad taxi drivers - fun fact: trist in taximetrist means sad - to their very core, we understand not only them but a very big chunk of their generation, my generation.

We no longer blame the government but we are looking within when something doesn't go our way. We blame ourselves, we are maturing from this point of view. We are getting there. There was a glimpse when one of the drivers wanted to go the political route but he was destroyed, when a client opened his eyes its all his fault for the situation he is in. It's the capitalist way.

Beside this, great sound and a different coloring of this night life, not usual to romanian cinema.