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The Transporter (2002)
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Reviews Counted:64
Fresh:33
Rotten:31
Average Rating:3.4/10
Consensus: The Transporter delivers the action at the expense of coherent storytelling.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for violent sequences and some sensuality
Runtime: 1 hr 32 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Theatrical Release:Oct 11, 2002 Wide
Box Office: $25,221,889
Synopsis:
Ex-Special Forces operator Frank Martin lives what seems to be a quiet life along the French Mediterranean, hiring himself out as a mercenary "transporter" who moves goods - human or otherwise -...
Ex-Special Forces operator Frank Martin lives what seems to be a quiet life along the French Mediterranean, hiring himself out as a mercenary "transporter" who moves goods - human or otherwise - from one place to another. No questions asked.
Carrying out mysterious and sometimes dangerous tasks in his tricked-out BMW, Frank adheres to a strict set of rules, which he never breaks. Rule One: Never change the deal. Rule Two: No names - Frank doesn't want to know whom he's working for, or what he's transporting. Rule Three: Never look in the package.
Frank's newest transport seems no different from the countless ones he's done in the past. He has been hired by an American known only as "Wall Street" (see Rule Two) to make a delivery, but when Frank stops along route, he notices his "package" is moving. Violating Rule Three, Frank looks inside the bag, finding its contents to be a beautiful, gagged woman.
Frank's steadfast adherence to his other two rules - which make up his basic code of survival - also quickly falls, hurtling him and his new companion on a road leading to shocking secrets, deadly complications, and the last thing Frank ever expected to come to believe: that rules are made to be broken. -- © 20th Century Fox
Starring: Jason Statham, Shu Qi, Matt Schulze, Francois Berleand
Starring: Jason Statham, Shu Qi, Matt Schulze, Francois Berleand, Richard Young, Doug Rand, Didier Saint Melin, Tonio Descanvelle
Director: Corey Yuen
Director: Corey Yuen
Screenwriter: Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen
Producer: Steven Chasman, Luc Besson
Composer: Stanley Clarke
Studio: 20th Century Fox
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Oct 14, 2008
Reviews for The Transporter
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.
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)
I saw no imperfections, not even a suggestion of grain, or dirt. Full marks.
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