D.C. Cab 1983 by AverageMansReviews

D.C. Cab 1983 by AverageMansReviews

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Warning: there is flashing effects/colourful/racist, homophobic and sexual assault references/shooting/breaking/medical

D. C Cab Company: basically; we have this struggling taxi/cab company which we meet Albert Hockenberry [Adam Baldwin:] a young man that wants to become a cab driver; his dad and one of the owners of this company go way back in fact they served their country; Harold Oswelt [Max Gail:] a war veteran which is like the leader/wise man of this band of misfits, he also has a wife called Myrna Oswelt [Anne De Salvo/Anne DeSalvo:] she comes across straight away as someone that is high maintenance as she is meant to be answering the telephone for the business, but even though it is right next to her, she calls out for someone else to do it as she is doing her nails and she also has another job. Now let's take a look at some of their drivers; Samson [Mr. T:] he is the one with a moral conscious and tries to do the right thing, For a quick example he keeps an eye on Jolene [Pauline Earlette:] his niece by in a nutshell in her schooling, making sure she stays away from unsavoury characters and on a quick side note for my younger readers/viewers that may not know; Mr. T used to be a limited appearance professional wrestler for the WWF/WWE and the WCW. Dell [Gary Busey/which has also written and produced the track "Why baby Why" the only reason I know this is because I saw it at the very last minute in the ending credits, but I digress:] he is a mixture between comical and crazy as for example making this is clean as I can someone deliberately doesn't pay for a fair and after Hockenberry tries and fails; Dell walks into this adult establishment and let's just say quickly runs out with enough to pay with him running out of this establishment, with him saying "Victory" as he quickly dives in the open passenger back seat, Hockenberry drives off before this woman could catch up to him. Baba [Bill Maher:] he is the musician/philosophical one and yes if you are thinking that this is a stand up comedian/TV presenter and a host of his self titled TV program Real Time with Bill Maher since 2003 you would be correct.

Generally speaking: I have to say the storyline is one of those outlays that is this is a section of these characters lives; I was thinking I would just add this in if you thought this film was aimless and the framework and pacing of this 100 minutes film is straightforward as it knows what it wants to do and get on with it.

Action/Comedy: as I have already given you will one example I will just give you another small example to look out for; watch out for the usage of the flamethrower; not criticising it, but I do think they missed out expanding this a little; should have used some hotdogs and/or marshmallows in one scene. Yes the action or/and comedy brings a little bit of substance to the film.

Character developments and performances; but we now move on to the biggest assets to this film bar none; it is this cast of characters and performers; it puts across to its audience that regardless of ethnic background or any background as you will see in this film; this cast of characters/performers can build this family atmosphere, okay they may not always get the long but when the chips are down as least someone from time to time will stand up and do what they feel is necessary, consequently hopefully inspiring mostly the others to do so as well. But it has to be said even though this film is almost 4 decades old, why is it that the outlook of today's society in 2023 and beyond is that in 1983 they were building character developments like this and instead of moving forward we have gone backwards, so in essence these character developments/character types still hold great value and a timeless quality based on we knew it back then and the sad thing is we have more division than ever.

This film receives: 6/10, this film is good; as I was just saying that character developments, the performances and all of that are as I already referenced also are of the biggest asset to this film by none and yes this film has one ending sequence in the ending credits and on top of that one extra scene after that.