The Transporter

Rating:
Summary: Truly Satisfied
Review: I remember being disappointed by the movie XXX with Vin Diesel, and I remember seeing the trailer for this movie around the same time. I should have skipped on XXX and checked this out right away! This was a consistant action thrill straight from the opening scene. I was constantly on the edge of my seat throughout the entire movie. Even with the annoying Asian chick it was smooth and wild and more than satisfied my hunger for a good action flick.

Rating:
Summary: Action Packed
Review: The movie starts out with a good car chase scenes set in a foreign country. Frank, the star of our movie is a "transporter" that is, a driver. A driver for robberies and a driver that delivered packages, no questions asked. Our man is hired to deliver a package that is loaded into the truck of his car. When he gets a flat, he sees that the package is moving. He instantly knows what it is, it is a person. He breaks his own rule and looks into the package and sees a pretty young woman. But, being a man of business he delivers the package to its destination anyway. Where he is asked to transport another package. Little does he know his knew package is a bomb, designed to take him out of the equation, leaving no witnesses to his delivery. He goes back to exact his vengeance and steal car similar to the one they blew up on him. He takes the young woman back to his place to try and figure out what to do.

Before he can figure out his options his home is destroyed in a second attempt on his life. Once again, Frank escapes. Once again, against his judgement he decides to get involved and realizes quickly he is in deep. He finds out that the bad guys are smuggling illegals from the far east. With the help of a local police chief he starts his campaign. Lots of action in this moving, car chases, explosions, guns, martial arts but without the goofy one liners that many of the newer movies have. Frank is a quiet ex-military man who always gets the job done. And once again, he gets the job done.

This is an action packed movie that never crosses into the unrealistic. No wires tied to the martial arts combatants and the like. Watch this underrated movie and enjoy, if you like this type.

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Summary: Good action but plotless movie with an annoying Asian Chick
Review: I got this at Blockbuster today and I like the first 35 min of this movie. Jason looks like a real professional when he wears his black suits and drives his BMW 735. He's acting cool and I like it. However, things turn bad as soon as he opens the bag carrying ex-Taiwanese pornstar Shu Qi. I still don't have a clue why she is in the bag the first place. Isn't she the daughter of the evil ugly Chinese man? Her screaming is just too annoying and I must admit that her English is just as bad as me.

The action is quite good except that it's over-done in some secens like in the bus.

Rating:
Summary: Not bad...You've just got to know what to expect
Review: I have read a number of the reviews for this paticular movie and I think it is important to remember the type of movie in question. This is a fairly good action movie.

Sure, I had some issues with the soundtrack but I didn't find it distracting.

Ok, the fight scene ratio of fifteen bad guys to one good guy can, at times, seem a little over-the-top.

However, if you are in the mood for an action film with exoctic locations, well-above-average car chases, and thought-provoking fight scenes, then you should enjoy this movie.

Rating:
Summary: The movie that XXX wished it could be
Review: For the past year or two, all I've heard is how Vin Diesel is supposed to be the next big action blockbuster hero. Not a chance, especially with a line up of overbloated yarns including Fast & The Furious, XXX, and A Man Apart. The guy thinks he's this generation's Arnold Schwarzenegger, give me a break, through the years Arnie never even took himself that seriously. All that aside, if anyone is looking to claim the aforementioned mantle of being a big screen action hero, be it Jason Statham. After giving memorable performances in Snatch, Ghosts of Mars, and The One, Statham gets to flex his muscles as Frank Martin; a transporter of dangerous and illegal goods who never asks questions about his shipments. He is disciplined, organized, patient, precise, and always on time. Until his curiousity gets the better of him and he stumbles upon a plot organized by international slave traitors. Hong Kong action vet Cory Yuen makes The Transporter his English language directorial debut, and Statham is a more than fitting actor for the role and this is a showcase of his goods as the next big screen action hero. The plot, while filled with leaps of logic and plenty of holes, is easily ignored once once you lay eyes on some of the best martial arts action scenes to come along in a while. The bonus extended fight footage offers some more bone crunching bloody action as well.

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Summary: I just...I don't know where to start.
Review: This movie made my brain cry. The reviewers that give this movie any praise make me mourn for humanity. I don't know why I have to work so hard to get through life, yet movies like this somehow weave their way through all checks and balances in the movie industry and in common sense itself. I will respect Amazon's wish for this space to be a review of the movie, but I will be brief...

This movie [stinks] on a level that I didn't even know existed until I saw the 30 "400" asians that were saved at the end. You'll know what I mean when you see it. Just promise me you won't rid yourself of the curse of sight with a hot poker.
This movie makes you feel the kind of stupid you feel the day after a night of binge drinking. After watching Jason Statham's career's suicide note, the only thing you'll want to do is pray for death with each self-inflicted hammer blow to your head. The badness of this movie is sublime. Trust me. Or don't, and let this inane excuse for a film wash over you like a big dumb wave.

Rating:
Summary: Fun and Intriguing
Review: Transporter has several surprises that puts it above others of its ilk such as Steven Segal films. By following a strict set of rules, Frank Martin (played by Jason Statham) has an impeccable reputation in the underworld as a transporter of illegal goods. When his latest client double-crosses him, Frank takes the war directly to him starting off a series of events that leads to the destruction of Frank's home and the effort to thwart his adversary's human slave trade. Shu Qi stars as the romantic lead, complicating the normally uncomplicated Frank Martin's life. I would have given this movie five stars if it hadn't had so many unbelievable events occur. There just happens to be two sets of air tanks and fins kept beneath Frank's home; a man who associates with no one and keeps life uncomplicated will be ready for someone to join him in an underwater swim? While I have no idea how much money a slave trader makes when hauling 400 Chinamen around, I have serious doubts he could readily afford to pay over 20 well-dressed thugs for hugely long fight scenes, and still have enough left over to split it with a Chinese partner. Nitpicking aside, The Transporter is a fun and intriguing movie well worth picking up for those that enjoy the genre.

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Summary: 90 mintues I'll never get back
Review: How Luc Besson ever signed his name to this movie is beyond me. The writing is terrible and the way the movie tries to move between moods, point to point, is just ridiculous to me. Those two main things kill off any chance this movie had with me, and there was nothing else that came within miles of saving it. The action was mezza mezza, but it didn't have a prayer being attached to that anchor of a script.

I really like Jason Statham, and I had no reservations about his having the lead role in an action/drama movie. I really like Luc Besson too. La Femme Nikita and The Professional are two of my favorite movies. Maybe I was expecting too much, but I got less than I ever could have imagined. I cannot recommend this movie to anyone, at all, in any way. That's something I don't think I've ever said about a movie. Yeah, that's how little I think of it. I'd rate it 0 stars if it were possible. It makes me sad to hate a movie like this, but that's how it is with The Transporter.

Rating:
Summary: "Transportation is a precise business"
Review: "The Transporter" delivers what it promises. Starting off with the best car chase scenes in a movie since "Ronin", the film introduces us to Jason Statham as a getaway driver operating in Southern France in a customized 1999 735 BMW sedan.

Statham is awesome throughout although his indeterminate accent makes it unclear if he's an American or a Brit, he starts as a Yank but you almost wish he was more like Turkish from the movie Snatch.

Whereas Vin Diesel's "XXX" meant to position Diesel as a Bond for the attention-deficit crowd but ended up collapsing into lumbering self-parody, "The Transporter" casts aside all pretenses from the opening frames and doesn't let up until a belated (and unfortunate) attempt to pull together some kind of plot.

Director Yuen keeps things moving nicely, and the movie's score arranged by Stanley Clarke mixes rapp, jazz and pounding car chase music to good effect. The setting - in Nice, Marseille and other warm and beautiful parts of France - is refreshing for this sort of movie, and well-filmed.

All in all what this movie proves is that with stunts like this, a coherent story would be nice, but it's not necessary. In a nutshell, this is the movie that "XXX" wanted to be.

Rating:
Summary: Surprisingly Good.
Review: Seeing as there is an increase of all these movies on people being transporters [for example foreigner with steven segal] i expected it to be like the rest of them. ... and stupid. However this one was surprisingly good. There are 3 rules and Frank - the transporter manages to break all of them on just one transport. The acting is okay. The fight scenes are originally but in some poorly choreographed, however the originality of it all makes up for anything the movie itself lacked.