Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

This big Chilean box office success is a great pleasant light movie with some serious undertones in it.This movie shows that there are some talented directors in South America, that can make some great movies, once they're giving the chance- and right tools. Every now and then a movie like this one goes overseas, to be seen by the rest of the world. This is one of those movies and it truly deserves to be seen by the world.The budget is obviously low but the filmmakers did their best with the resources they had. It gives the movie a good and professional look and makes the quality of the movie quite high, despite the budget. It once more proofs that all you truly need to make a great movie with, is creative talent.The movie begins quite simple with a simple premise; A poor taxi driver with a big family to support is given a choice from 2 small time crooks: drive them around while they rob, or get locked up in the trunk. It probably sounds like this is the Chilean "Collateral" but it obviously is not. This movie chooses a light and comedy like approach, which makes the movie pleasant to watch. As the movie progresses the movie however also gets some more serious undertones about family values, everyday struggles and other dramatic situations. It makes the movie more than just a fun, light pleasant movie to watch but also one with a great underlying story, that is well written- and used in the movie.But above all this movie mainly remains a pleasant one. Despite the dramatic and serious undertones, the movie always remains a comedy. It makes the movie pleasant but at the same time not at the costs of the overall effectiveness of the story.The acting in this movie feels very natural and it makes you care about the characters and make them all realistic ones as well.In my experience, an excellent movie to get introduced for the first time to Chilean cinema.8/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

As a foreigner studying new Chilean film it was this film which impressed me more than any. The low production costs, gloomily atmospheric cinematography and sparse mise-en-scene submerge the viewer in Santiago's poorer nieghbourhoods from the opening scene until the last. The film explores the breakdown of the family unit, the lure of crime for those poverty stricken sectors of society documented, but ultimately is a triumph of morality which restores the viewer's faith in the Chilean person.This film shot Alejandro Trejo to fame as Taxista Ulises, and his relationships with his family and with the petty criminals who use him as their chauffeur underpin the narrative. One can see why a family man becomes tempted by the get rich quick option of small robberies when his family live in such poverty (his son asks for coca-cola, and is told thats too expensive, theres only tap-water. This family cannot buy into the capitalist dream and are swept away. Ulises, like many poorer citizens, turns to crime. The social question raised by Lubbert, a man exiled during the Military regime, is 'Perhaps wealth should be distributed more equally, then men like Ulises would not so easily become criminals.'). Also, one can see why Ulises is driven to infidelity, and the strain of poverty, and the suspicion of his crime, begin to show in his relationship with his wife.This film exudes brooding social decline, even thirteen years after the fall of the Military Regime. The dry, sun beaten expanses of Santiago's poorer Western barrios are made undeniabley Chilean by imagery of the Plaza de Armas, Churrascos, and dialogues bursting with Chilean slang. The moody soundtrack of Vasconcelos adds a melanchony feel of despair to the three main character's situations. This is a Chilean film, documenting social problems, and doing so without indulging in hyperbolic comedy, as the two most successful films in Chilean history, Sexo Con Amor and El Chacotero Sentimental (at least two thirds), did so memorably.Lubbert has returned to Chile in the new climate of social freedom, looked around him, and seen there remain serious social problems. The tension is always there, even if at times lighthearted, but the overriding theme is that of social criticism, and Lubbert has realized that he doesn't need to make people have sex on top of washing machines (a la Sexo Con Amor) to make Chileans go and see a Chilean film.

That's all, this is not a bad movie, neither an excellent one, but I think is exciting to see another country films and learning new things in relative. I saw this in Chile, and there it was a success, just like "El Chacotero Sentimental" (that is a bad one), as a summary, In countries like Chile there are good film makers and we have to appreciate that, but I'm still waiting a very good one from Chile.

Taxi para 3 (Taxi for 3) is about the sad life of many people in Chile. But is not a sad movie or a politic one. The curious and sometimes funny relation between two thieves and a cab driver shows all the moral misery in Chile nowadays. The three leading roles are just brilliant, and the script is very smart and well written. The line: "¿Volante o maleta?" (Wheel or trunk?) when the thieves are kidnapping the cab driver, is one of the most powerful in modern Chilean cinema, and resumes the world that Orlando Lubbert shows us. The only weak point is the photography, but doesn't bother watching this good movie with a good story, good acting and a good soundtrack.