“Are you the gay?” I’d rather be than go anywhere near you, dear! The Ukrainian girl in it was one of the most unattractive women I’ve ever seen on film and she was ridiculously annoying. You can suspend disbelief up to a certain point, but that scene pretty much killed the movie. The (CGI) car jumping off the bridge and driving along the top of the train was utter nonsense. The action is just as crazy as the previous films but it does stretch credibility, even for me. Frank wakes up to find he is wearing a bracelet with a bomb attached if he gets a certain distance from his car then… BOOM! The Transporter 3 is more of the same with The Stath returning as Frank Martin, except this time there are elements of Crank to the story. Widely regarded as a terrible film, I actually enjoy it for the most part. Overall, not an all-time classic action movie but there’s fun to be had with hot girls with guns, fight scenes and fast cars. Matthew Modine and Amber Valletta are always entertaining and they just go with the flow and enjoy the ride. I love how in the posters for this film, it has Frank shooting 2 guns, despite the fact he never actually kills anyone with any guns this was a newer softer action series for the post 9/11 era. The plot is some nonsense about a virus or something, but really, who cares? The main villain Gianni Chellini is a pretty standard action movie bad guy: Foreign accent + nice suits = drug dealer. You’ve got a great badass chick in Lola who has a great fight with Frank at the end and has a pretty spectacular death as well. All 3 have a very European feel and look, even this one despite being filmed in Miami. The reason I enjoy The Transporter series is the producers (Luc Besson, etc) were doing old-school action while everyone else had forgotten how to make fun movies. These films know they are silly and you either go with it or you don’t I say go with it and have some beer and you’ll find yourself having a blast. The Transporter 2 is equally as much fun as the first film and has plenty of fights, stunts and thrills to keep anyone entertained. None of these films are going for realism here and that’s just fine by me. The Stath gets to pretty much uses his pants as a weapon in this one, as well as a fire hose used to comically awesome effect. It does however, have a great soundtrack and works really well in maintaining an exciting atmosphere throughout. The Stath’s second venture as Frank Martin is a mixed bag on the one hand it is beautifully shot and has some decent action, but on the other hand it’s let down by some frankly terrible CGI. Definitely worth a watch for some old school and new school action mixed together. Overall, The Transporter is an important action movie which helped establish Jason Statham as the newest badass on the block and 10 years later, he still has no competition. The dialogue is overall pretty forgettable with no real stand out one-liners, but this was a new kind of action movie for the next generation so a new direction was required. The plot was something kinda different and felt fresh for the most part with a satisfying conclusion.įlaws? It is very silly in places and some of the action is a bit hard to swallow, but this is easily the best in the series and the best directed. It works really well in establishing the atmosphere for the film and I still have it in my iPod on a regular basis. The choice of music was a breath of fresh air to the action genre it had a Euro sound to it and mixed dance tunes with traditional score. The supporting cast are all great, especially Shu Qi who is just gorgeous and very likable on screen. Frank is a great character tough, mysterious and cool played to perfection by Statham. The film doesn’t waste any time in introducing us to Frank a man with his own set of rules… which he breaks in every movie. It opens with a classic car chase through the streets of Nice and I have to say that it’s never looked more appealing. The Transporter is filmed in the South of France and the cinematography is fabulous. I consider this to be one of the most important action movies of the last decade, as it showed us that some people still knew how to make old-school action movies. We just didn’t know just HOW great he’d be at it.įrank Martin is (thus far) Statham’s most iconic character, returning for a further 2 sequels and making a pretty penny at the box office. The Transporter introduced us to the newest action hero on the block: Jason Statham when the film first appeared, everyone was like “Isn’t that the guy from Lock Stock?” and we then bore witness to his awesome ass kicking skills.Ī trained Olympic athlete, Statham was no stranger to working out and had trained in Jiu Jitsu for years so it was inevitable that he would try his hand at action.
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