Average Rating: 5.6/10
Reviews Counted: 124
Fresh: 67 | Rotten: 57
The Transporter delivers the action at the expense of coherent storytelling.
Average Rating: 5.1/10
Critic Reviews: 28
Fresh: 13 | Rotten: 15
The Transporter delivers the action at the expense of coherent storytelling.
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An outlaw finds his life becoming all the more dangerous when he turns against a gang of criminals in this action drama. Frank Martin (Jason Statham) is a former Special Forces officer who lives on the French Mediterranean and has a lucrative second career as a underworld courier for hire. Martin will deliver anything anywhere, but he has three iron-clad rules - once the plan is in motion it cannot be changed, neither he nor his customers are to ever use their real names, and under no
PG-13, 1 hr. 32 min.
Oct 11, 2002 Wide
Apr 15, 2003
$25.2M
Fox
All Critics (127) | Top Critics (29) | Fresh (72) | Rotten (60) | DVD (35)
Jason Statham uses his smoldering charisma to great effect.
Kills time between car chases and martial-arts bouts with random scuba-diving footage apparently culled from producer-co-writer Luc Besson's The Big Blue.
The chases and explosions get a little (well, more than a little) ludicrous, but the cool premise is still very cool.
It's high rent Steven Segal -- fights, explosions, and more fights, but with a flair.
The story is virtually impossible to follow here, but there's a certain style and wit to the dialogue.
Quite the ride, if you can stand the sight of valuable cars at risk.
Pure popcorn pleasure for older teens and up.
I appreciated the first half and the great performance from Statham, but became disappointed by the second half...
Every bit the over-the-top action extravaganza it appears to be, and the glee of its knowing preposterousness makes it easy to overlook its general mindlessness.
Chases and choreographed fights set to rock music take up most of the running time and the movie is like To Catch a Thief remade by a hack follower of John Woo.
This gang mastermind, gym body Italian import psycho neck wringer Gianni (Alessandro Gassman, son of famed Vittorio), has concocted likely the most convoluted mass murder scheme ever to hit the theaters.
Fun action, big explosions, inventive car-chase sequences, and a ratio of stunts-to-downtime that's weighted heavily in favor of the stunts.
This gang mastermind, gym body Italian import psycho neck wringer Gianni (Alessandro Gassman, son of famed Vittorio), has concocted likely the most convoluted mass murder scheme ever to hit the theaters.
The acting might be shoddy, the plot nonsense and the dialogue clunky, but the fighting is exquisitely done. Inventive, athletic, fun, stylish and tight, it's everything the rest of the film isn't.
An entertaining surprise.
While it can come off as a bit stiff and humorless at times, the movie does deliver mightily in its hand-to-hand combat sequences...
...each action scene in The Transporter seems to have been designed for no other purpose than to set up the next action scene. (Special Delivery Edition)
A ridiculous and confusing mess of overwritten dialogue, nonsensical plot contrivances and impossible, overlong action sequences.
Mais uma vez, Luc Besson (que aqui exerce as funções de produtor e roteirista) ignora a narrativa em prol da ação inconseqüente (e inócua, já que ninguém sequer sangra). O que aconteceu ao responsável pelo ótimo O Profissional?
A serviceable Euro-trash action extravaganza, with a decent sense of humor and plenty of things that go boom - handguns, BMWs and seaside chateaus.
2002 French actioner chronicles the work of character Frank Martin, AKA the Transporter. His job is to deliver packages, and he consistently lives by three specific rules.This film, though appearing as a 90-minute car commercial, was very watchable and notably fun. It was often goofy, and that is something hard NOT
July 9, 2011Super Reviewer
The transporter was directed by both Corey Yuen & Louis Leterrier but essentially it was directed by Louis Leterrier. He seems to have been Luc Besson's go to man during his producing era (I'm so glad he's directing again) and you can see why. The action is there and so is the heart - Unleashed is another good example
September 14, 2009Super Reviewer
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