Ok we all know how good the movie Transporter was when it first came out October 11, 2002. It was full of action and the acting was good. I really enjoyed it, and from the way it ended I knew there was going to be a sequel to it somehow-because I would hate to pay $11 (at the time), sit down and watch a movie that doesn 't have a point to it, that I would wonder "what's next?"I fell in love with Jason Statham who played as Frank Martin (transporter). He was so focused on what he was doing and the way he fought those thugs who was in his way of performing his dangerous job.
Now when the sequel came out on September 2, 2005. I was very happy and couldn't wait to see it. I think it was better than the first one in my opinion.
Three years later, the third sequel came out on November 26th of this year, although I knew I wouldn't be able to see it the first night because I have been busy, but am sure was lucky it was still in theatre by December 18th.-I really loved the third sequel, more actions, it really kept me guessing and was full of excitements.-LOVED it and sure going to get it on dvd. I think Jason Statham was a very good choice/fit for this role-he did a great job!
Frank Martin puts the driving gloves on to deliver Valentina, the kidnapped daughter of a Ukranian government official, from Marseilles to odessa on the Black Sea. En route, he has contend with thugs who want to intercept Valentina's safe delivery and not let his personal feelings get in tnhe way of of his dangerous object.
Statham is back as mob courier Frank Martin -- who never looks at the package, never asks questions and never fails -- in this Olivier Megaton-directed chase thriller. Following the high style of Hong Kong's Cory Yuen ("The Transporter") and "The Incredible Hulk" helmer Louis Leterrier ("Transporter 2"), Megaton has considerably big shoes to fill. But even with Yuen as his fight choreographer, "Transporter 3" has been CG'd into visual paralysis. Perhaps in an effort to achieve a PG-13 rating, there's no blood, no visceral payoff in the martial-arts contests and no continuity to the fighting: The cutting in and out as Frank takes apart six or seven trained assassins takes all the vinegar out of the violence.
Toxic waste and what to do with it is the crisis in "Transporter 3," as some shady characters attempt to coerce Vasilev (Jeroen Krabbe), the head of Odessa's environmental protection agency, into harboring eight ships carrying a mother lode of bubbling sludge.
To sway Vasilev, a particularly vicious character named Johnson (a convincing Robert Knepper) kidnaps Vasilev's daughter, Valentina (Natalya Rudakova). Why Vasilev would want her back becomes an immediate question; for most of the movie, she's Frank's headache.
Arriving in Frank's living room through a field-stone wall, Valentina is a bit of a manic-depressive. ("What matters, my name?" she answers when Frank asks. Later: "I want to feel the sex one more time before I die.") And although Rudakova is Russian, her range is such that she makes a very unconvincing Ukrainian.
The story's techno-hook is that both Frank and Valentina get shackled into fancy brushed-chrome bracelets that are programmed to blow them to kingdom come if they wander more than 75 feet from Frank's car, whose grille gets as much screen time as Frank's face. This bracelet problem triggers some of the pic's more involved sequences, such as when Frank drives the car off a bridge and has to choose between drowning and exploding. It's in such moments that "Transporter 3" shows creativity and a sense of humor.
Statham is the real deal, despite all the nut-roll Besson machinations and Babel-esque dialogue. He gives baldness a good name, he can pull off the quiet-man thing without seeming churlish or psychotic, and he has enormous presence.
It's understandable that producers Besson and Steven Chasman would want an international cast to generate international sales, but the ubiquitous French screen actor Francois Berleand, who plays Frank's police liaison Tarconi, is much better in French. Casting of a Dutchman (Krabbe) as a Ukrainian government official and Rudakova's pidgin-English routine only add to the linguistic confusion.
Toxic waste and what to do with it is the crisis in "Transporter 3," as some shady characters attempt to coerce Vasilev (Jeroen Krabbe), the head of Odessa's environmental protection agency, into harboring eight ships carrying a mother lode of bubbling sludge.
To sway Vasilev, a particularly vicious character named Johnson (a convincing Robert Knepper) kidnaps Vasilev's daughter, Valentina (Natalya Rudakova). Why Vasilev would want her back becomes an immediate question; for most of the movie, she's Frank's headache.
Arriving in Frank's living room through a field-stone wall, Valentina is a bit of a manic-depressive. ("What matters, my name?" she answers when Frank asks. Later: "I want to feel the sex one more time before I die.") And although Rudakova is Russian, her range is such that she makes a very unconvincing Ukrainian.
The story's techno-hook is that both Frank and Valentina get shackled into fancy brushed-chrome bracelets that are programmed to blow them to kingdom come if they wander more than 75 feet from Frank's car, whose grille gets as much screen time as Frank's face. This bracelet problem triggers some of the pic's more involved sequences, such as when Frank drives the car off a bridge and has to choose between drowning and exploding. It's in such moments that "Transporter 3" shows creativity and a sense of humor.
Statham is the real deal, despite all the nut-roll Besson machinations and Babel-esque dialogue. He gives baldness a good name, he can pull off the quiet-man thing without seeming churlish or psychotic, and he has enormous presence.
It's understandable that producers Besson and Steven Chasman would want an international cast to generate international sales, but the ubiquitous French screen actor Francois Berleand, who plays Frank's police liaison Tarconi, is much better in French. Casting of a Dutchman (Krabbe) as a Ukrainian government official and Rudakova's pidgin-English routine only add to the linguistic confusion.
I would give this movie two-thumbs up!!
And I would recommend everyone to go see it!!
Actors were great, the plot to this movie was very fit and beautiful.
GO SEE IT!!
Production Credits
Director - Olivier MegatonSource Material - Luc BessonSource Material - Robert KamenProducer - Luc BessonStunt Coordinator - Dominique FouassierStunt Rehearsals - Alain FiglarzStunt Coordinator Assistant - Barnard ChevreulProducer - Steve ChasmanStunt Coordinator Assistant - Jean-Louis BonnetStunt Coordinator Assistant - Gerard Kuhnl
Company Information
EuropaCorp - Production CompanyLionsgate - Domestic Theatrical DistributorTF1 Films Productions - Production Company
Locations
Russia
France
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