Tuesday, October 15, 2002

Review of The Transporter     Frank Martin (Jason Statham) is a Transporter.  His job is to deliver things.  People, packages, whatever.  He only has three rules. 1. Never alter the deal. 2. No names. 3. Never, ever look inside the package.  But one job gets him a moving package, and curiosity gets the better of him and he looks inside and finds a beautiful woman.  He still delivers her, but the people who hired him figure it out and decide they need him eliminated.     This is one of the few super-action films of the fall, and it does its job so much better than many of those bigger-budget summer action flicks.  Fantastic car chases, amazing martial arts sequences, extremely stylishly shot, and actually has a good sense of humor.  Jason Statham (who you might remember from Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels) is extremely calm, cool, and collected throughout the movie, which plays perfectly well for his role. There isn’t much of a plot, it isn’t extremely deep, but this movie sort of knows it doesn’t need that much of a plot or be very deep to be extremely fun, which it more than accomplishes, and it goes along at exciting breakneck speed.  In fact, my only complaint is that when the movie actually slows down enough to give it some sort of a humanitarian plot, it stops dead in it’s tracks.  Ok, they tried to kill the guy.  Not only that, but they blew up his really cool car as well as his house.  That’s enough of a reason to kick the bad guy’s asses; do they really need to throw in a humanitarian reason and a really bad plot twist it?  It just slows down the movie, but luckily doesn’t come anywhere close to ruining it. Final Grade: B+ 9:58:04 PM    comment []