The Transporter Reviews

Pure popcorn pleasure for older teens and up.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

I appreciated the first half and the great performance from Statham, but became disappointed by the second half...

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Jason Statham uses his smoldering charisma to great effect.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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An entertaining surprise.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

A ridiculous and confusing mess of overwritten dialogue, nonsensical plot contrivances and impossible, overlong action sequences.

| Original Score: C-

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?

| Original Score: 1/5

A serviceable Euro-trash action extravaganza, with a decent sense of humor and plenty of things that go boom - handguns, BMWs and seaside chateaus.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Statham impresses in a movie that is simultaneously the best (the fight scenes) and worst (everything else) action movie of the year. Destined for drunken Friday night rental heaven.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

A post-modern take on the "heroic bloodshed" genre that already had one foot in self-satire.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

British actor Jason Statham injects The Transporter with a healthy dose of clout, charisma and kickboxing skill.

| Original Score: 3/4

The action sequences here don't have the kinetic oomph required in such a mindless effort.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

...plays like an extended trailer for a movie, a highlights reel, with all the boring stuff, like talk, left out.

| Original Score: 5/10

While it certainly has more gunplay and kung-fu hijinks ... it is ultimately less entertaining, despite the likeable leads.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Like the longest BMW featurette Guy Ritchie never made, this action yarn is a slick, sexy little package with fast cars, big explosions, dazzling locations in the south of France, a trip-hop score, and about as much plot to fill a thimble.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

This movie is as fun to sit through as a burning hemorrhoid.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

Statham employs an accent that I think is supposed to be an attempt at hardass American but sometimes just lapses into unhidden British.

| Original Score: 2/4