New York City was always dangerous place, at leats for members of certain profession working at certain times of day. That includes main characters of 3 A.M., 2001 drama written and directed by Lee Davis. The plot deals with financially struggling taxi company owned by Box (played by Sarita Choudhury) whose business woes are made worse by serial killer targetting taxi drivers. While Box desperately tries to find ways to keep her business afloat, her drivers are faced with somewhat more prosaic problems. Hershey (played by Danny Glover), experienced driver and former baseball players, contemplates ending long term relationship with his old flame, waitress George (played by Pam Grier). Young driver Rasha (played by Srđan Trifunović) is a refugee from war-torn Bosnia who tries to make some sense of his life by idealising otherwise professional relationship with a prostitute. Driver with a biggest set of issues is Salgado (played by Michelle Rodriguez), woman traumatised by childhood abuse who began to imagine being pursued by a demon in a form of taxi passenger. Fate would make all of their issues being resolved during one eventful night.
Lee Davis, protege of Spike Lee, presented 3 A.M. at Sundance Film Festival. The reception was very cold, most likely because the critics, that would otherwise be very favourable to such kind of films, considered his work to be derivative of other and better films like Scorsese’s Taxi Driver and Lee’s Summer of Sam. Davis had the right idea in depicting the dark underbelly of New York’s asphalt jungle from the perspective of those who have to deal with its excesses every night, but the execution was poor. Some of the stories in the film work, while some don’t, like in the case of Bosnian immigrant. Davis also had trouble connecting all those segment into coherent whole. Although the film has interesting cast, some notable names left underwhelming impression, like Glover. 3 A.M. is a confusing film that has couple of bright moments, but it can be enjoyed only if someone doesn’t remember or know that the likes of Schrader, Scorsese and Lee covered the same territory much better.
RATING: 3/10 (+)
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