The Transporter
Jason Statham (one of the more comprehendible characters from Snatch) stars as Frank Martin, a person who transports things which need transporting. As a man who lives a solitary life and lives to work and works to live, he doesn’t expect any surprises. But, if this movie continued like that, what kind of a movie would this be? As a result, surprise comes in the form of Qi Shu, a girl who’s pretty, cute, and pretty cute. As the package, she’s accidently discovered in the back of the trunk by Frank after he fixed a flat tire. The receiver finds out and tries to have him killed. (Am I right in hearing his name was Wall Street? What kind of stupid name is that?) After he blows up Frank’s car, that’s when you know he’s mad. So, as luck would have it, the girl meets up with him and convinces Frank to help her get some 400 Chinese people out of a shipping container who are about to be turned into slaves. And with the good heart he has, he finishes the job.

The action was well done, especially the car chase in the beginning, but there came a point in the movie when it all seemed too ridiculous. Each action scene was calculated to take it one step further, so much so that it became over the top. I mean, he’s a freakin’ driver for petes sake. First, the bad guys use missiles to blow up his house. Then by the end of the movie, he’s winning a fight against 20-or-so men and being “slick” about it too. And what about guns? Did they just happen to run out after they blew up the poor guy's house? In the many fighting scenes, nobody thought of shooting him, maybe in the leg if they wanted to keep him alive? There’s also a lack of transition between scenes, which explains for the lack of story in the last 80 minutes of the film. And even though it’s called The Transporter, there isn’t much transporting going on. A car chase in the beginning and a car scene at the end is all there is. But through all of it, Frank is just a cool character. 2 stars