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Summary: Jason Statham is a star!
Review: This film is worth seeing if you want to see the rise of a mega action star who will top Russell Crowe because here is an actor who is an ex-Olympic diver. Statham brings a refreshing interpretation to the cliche Hong Kong martial arts moves. Imagine Arnold doing Jackie Chan moves! The story line is somewhat silly but Stathum's acting made the best of it. The car chase scenes are a real joy for fans of the BMW's "The Hire" series.
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Summary: A good movie
Review: The Transporter will take any package anywhere with just a few simple rules: no names, no changes to the deal, and NEVER look at the package. ...This is a good movie with a lot for everyone. It has a few long car chases a few fight scenes, a love story, and various gun battles. Enough for any action fan. The star is really believable as The Transporter ... The movie has some great moments, but also has some mediocre ones. All in all though, I'd have to suggest it...most likely for a rental though. Still, a great movie from director Corey Yuin. I look forward to his next.
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Summary: A good movie
Review: The Transporter will take any package anywhere with just a few simple rules: no names, no changes to the deal, and NEVER look at the package. When he breaks one of those rules to find out he's carrying a beautiful Oriental girl, things go wrong. When the guys he's delivering her to try to kill him, things get worse. When they underestimate him, it's their turn to pay. This is a good movie with a lot for everyone. It has a few long car chases (the first of which quickly becomes absurd with one of his tactics of escaping the police - but keep watching and it'll get better), a few fight scenes, a love story, and various gun battles. Enough for any action fan. The star is really believable as The Transporter (he reminds you a lot of Bruce Willis in the first "Die Hard" movie - hopefully his career won't be stuck in the same rut though with "The Transporter 2: Transport Harder" and "Transport With A Vengeance" or something). The movie has some great moments, but also has some mediocre ones. All in all though, I'd have to suggest it...most likely for a rental though. Still, a great movie from director Corey Yuin. I look forward to his next.
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Summary: Jason Statham=Great, Movie=okay
Review: Corey Yuen the director has churned out enjoyable Hong Kong type actioners for some time. He's always seemed to exist in John Woo's shadow. He churns out enjoyable sturdy films (usually with Jet Li) but somehow just short of the brilliance and originality that John Woo wowed the world with. He continues in that vein with The Transporter. A thoroughly enjoyable but (with the exception of the lead performance) unremarkable action film.Jason Stratham plays a mercenary transporter who will transport anything for a fee no questions asked. He has a set of fixed rules that he follows without deviation. On one mission he breaks his own rule and opens the package that he is assigned to carry. The result is his life is in danger and he has to take on the mob to live again. Stratham is the stand out here. Even though the script barely flushes out a character for him to play he manages to convey the essence of his character through the set of his jaw, the tenseness with which he holds himself, his clipped responses. It's a beautiful physical performanc and enhances the film even without the humor that Jackie Chan or Harrison Ford often convey in their best work. He moves well in the action sequences and is fit without being an overmuscled Stallone, Schwarzenegger, or Diesel type. Unfortunately, Stratham is the only actor who stands out. Qi Shu who plays the female lead seems to just squeal and seek protection. She seems almost creepily suppliant to Stratham. The villains seem pretty generic as does the Francois Berleand as the detective after Stratham. Berleand's accent is so thick that I couldn't even understand him when he was talking about Proust. Fortunately, his dialogue scenes are brief. If you're looking for action, the film delivers on all counts in numerous beautifully shot and staged car chases, explosions and martial arts style fights. Except for one or two implausible plot points the script is efficient and sets up a nifty premise (though I still have a feeling there is a truck not accounted for by the end of the film). The movie overdoes the hip-hop and music blasts. The music seems so generic and just there to add market value that it takes away from the atmosphere of the film. Still a decent film with a great star making performance in it. I hope Stratham does more work in the future. He really does have a powerful range and a sense on how to convey a character well in the cartoon world of action films. This is not as easy as it seems (witness Vin Diesel's work in XXX or Cruise's work in Minority Report)--Stratham should have a bright future!
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Summary: So bad it's funny
Review: After a really promising opening, this movie devolves into the most ludicrous video game imaginable--with endless bad guys that attack in "difficulty levels" and impossible reappearances of villains. The dialogue is perhaps the worst on record, and I've seen Waterworld AND the Island of Dr. Moreau. It's bad bad bad. Go with a huge group of friends & then go out to laugh and shake your heads. This is how bad it is: the French play a prominent role as law enforcement!
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Summary: The Transporter
Review: Without doubt, the single most action packed, head turning, bone crunching, rear kicking, finger tapping movie I have ever seen. A menage of "Ronin" meets "The Professional" on steroids....way too cool to sum up with using profanity!
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Summary: Rent this one. Don't waste your money at the theater.
Review: I was extremely disapointed at this movie. The first ten minutes set up the story. The "transporter" transports things from one location to another. Whatever you need moved, he will take it, no questions asked, and get it to where it needs to go, no matter what. That's the deal. The first ten minutes contained one of the coolest car chases I've ever seen. I was sure the movie would be excellent. Sounds kind of cool right? Wrong. It went downhill from there, in a hurry.
Somewhere in this movie there was a plot. In one scene, there would be a great deal of plot involved, and in others the plot seemed to be forgotten.
There are some movies that can make up for not having a good plot by having good action. This one doesn't fall in that category either.
By far the coolest parts in this movie are highlighted in the commercials. The car chase scene is from the beginning, the rockets blowing up his house, the fight in the mansion where he does that awesome double kick (and where he rings the doorbell and then kicks the door down), the fight scene in the bus station where everybody gets covered with greese, and the chase at the end where he kicks through the windshield of a moving semi truck. That's what they show in the commercial, and that's the only cool parts.
No surprises here. If you liked "kiss of the dragon", with Jet Li, then you'll probably like this one. If you thought "KOD" had a stupid story, and didn't have as much action as you thought it would, then you'd definitely not like The Transporter.
It was a good try. It had a lot of potential, but this one will definitely gather dust when it comes out to rent. Go only if you can get somebody else to pay for your ticket. Else, wait until it's not a "new release" and rent it then.
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Summary: A decent movie for matinee prices.
Review: The Transporter is an action movie with a touch of love. A man, after years of service in the military, has decided to go into business for his self. The transportation business. From running illegal or questionable cargo to being a wheelman. But this time, he makes a mistake. He breaks one of his own rules. He opened the package. What was it? A stunning beautiful woman. He delivers the "package," but they figure out that he opened it. After a couple attempts to kill him he decides to help this woman, who has once again appeared into his life. Although this movie has a few unbelievable segments, like landing on a tractor-trailer, at highway speeds, in a parachute, it has some good eye candy. The car chases are well choreographied, as is the fight scenes. Well worth a matinee ticket. Go see it, if just to see the beautiful woman. ;)
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Summary: WOW!!
Review: What action? What car chase scenes? What Explosions? What Kick Butt fighting scenes? This movie had it all. I don't do a lot of reviews on Movies because I never want to give away to much, some times its better if you don't know what to expect. Like I did ((smile)) I didn't know what the HECK this movie was about my boyfriend and I saw it this weekend. He selected it because he happens to like the Producer (the dude who did Le Femme Nikita)and the Director other works (he does the Martial Arts choreography for some of Jet Li's and Jackie Chans movies). Anyway needless to say I didn't know what to expect so all I could be was either pleasantly surprised or hate it. LOL The role of the "hero" is played by Jason Statham from "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" and "Snatch" although in the previous flicks he didn't have as much Martial Arts action as he did in this one. Plot not much kind of far fetch and not clearly pointed out but the ACTION!! this guy is incredible! The movie opens with this slamming car chase scene the music in it was the BOMB!! (very Hip-Hop) it never took a lull (in my opinion) you were on a Fast Pace ride. He is a transporter of anything.... NO QUESTIONS ASKED. He is good at what he does, precise and meticulous. Of course something happens while he doing a job and ALL HELL BREAKS loose. There is a woman Qui Shi (Japanese action fans will remember her from "A Man called Hero" fame) that's thrown into his world and with her comes trouble (same ole scenerio)but here is where the plot gets fuzzy and suspended belief needs to come in. You never really know if he should trust her or not and their are some stunts scenes that are again............ you need to use your suspended belief theory here in order to still enjoy the movie. Overall a good movie I recommend seeing. Had a very Euro feel to it, the setting is beautiful Nice, France.
Understand that the 5 Stars is for the Action and the Soundtrack if I had to take into account the Plot I would probably take it down to a 3 1/2- 4 but seeing as it is one I liked enough to say immediatly after the movie I will buy this DVD when it comes out..... I figure that is a pretty good sign for 5 Stars. Respectfully Reviewed
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Summary: The Transporter
Review: Let me just start by saying that Jason Statham is spectacular, and is a much-needed fresh face in the action genre. Seeing him in The One was highly disturbing - the coolest guy in the film playing the sidekick, choking on a fake American accent, and not getting any moments to demonstrate his starpower. After seeing The Transporter, The One is all the more disturbing, because Statham has the athleticism of the best action stars in the business (even more so, in fact), and can pull off some staggering martial arts sequences. Forcing him to stand in the background was like benching the MVP. I was amazed by Statham in this movie. The movie itself, however, is lacking. It takes an interesting concept and a compelling main character and throws him into a ridiculously absurd plotline and a cheesy romance. Fortunately, the action sequences (which come late in the film) are generally awe-inspiring. But going back to the negatives, the movie's soundtrack is mostly appalling. Generally, a movie's choice of music doesn't hamper enjoyment all that much, but this is not the case with The Transporter. The R&B/rap that drenches the film is inappropriate, tacked on, and outright distracting. Even XXX used music more wisely, and until now, I thought it had one of the trashiest soundtracks I'd ever heard. On top of this, the ending of The Transporter seems like something out of a bad 80s flick (and employs yet another embarrassingly bad tune). Despite this, the action set pieces and the mere presence of Jason Statham keep the movie from falling apart, and for action fans (especially fans of Hong Kong movies), it's definitely worth seeing. I just can't help but think that it could have been so much better.
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