Average Rating: 4.8/10
Reviews Counted: 110
Fresh: 40 | Rotten: 70
This middling installment in the Transporter franchise is a few steps down from its predecessors, featuring generic stunts and a lack of energy.
Average Rating: 4.5/10
Critic Reviews: 24
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 17
This middling installment in the Transporter franchise is a few steps down from its predecessors, featuring generic stunts and a lack of energy.
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Strong-armed into transporting the kidnapped daughter of the head of the Environmental Agency for the Ukraine from Marseilles to Odessa, skilled wheelman Frank Martin (Jason Statham) enlists the aid of Inspector Tarconi (François Berléand) in accomplishing the treacherous assignment in this action-packed installment of the popular action series produced by Luc Besson (who also co-scripts). Frank isn't exactly thrilled with his latest assignment, but when his employer turns up the pressure, he
Nov 26, 2008 Wide
Mar 10, 2009
$31.3M
Lionsgate Films
All Critics (114) | Top Critics (24) | Fresh (41) | Rotten (71) | DVD (3)
I had less problems with the characters and more trouble with the actual action, which felt really antiseptic to me.
A mindless, silly waste of time.
It's hard not to smile.
You know a series is in trouble when it begins mocking its own premise. Frank's obsessive rules about who, what and how he transports stuff are ruthlessly violated.
Somehow Statham comes out of this improbable thriller with his dignity intact. With classic action-hero qualities and dry wit, he seems woefully under-employed as a deliveryman.
Here's all fans need to know: Yes, Statham strips to the waist multiple times; yes, two dozen hopelessly outnumbered kung fu goons take on our lone hero one by one; and yes, he manages to outpace his Audi by bicycling through a congested sweatshop.
Usually stuff like this gets mercifully relegated to the 2 A.M. slot on HBO next to most recent Steven Seagal masterpiece. But The Transporter series has managed to gather enough of an audience for Lionsgate to inflict it on us every so often.
Delivers what it promises.
The first film was slick, the second one silly, but at least we knew what was going on during those action beats.
Transporter 3 is the cinematic equivalent of cotton candy: a quick sugar rush that melts in your mouth and is forgotten five minutes later.
A 'what not to do' guide when making an action film.
A preposterous, over the top and entertaining return of Frank Martin, the courier who delivers anything without question. Forget the ludicrous plot and just sit back and enjoy the fight and driving sequences.
Most film trilogies usually drop the ball on the third entry, but if you want to see it done right, check out the fun, unpretentious Transporter 3.
As a thriller, Transporter 3 bandies back and forth between tolerable and terrible.
An eye-popping overindulgence in escapist fantasy!
Though director Olivier Megaton exhibits a good bit of that annoyingly jagged editing that's become all the rage in action films, he has the good sense to never cut away from Statham's pecs.
The good thing about Transporter 3 is that you know exactly what to expect. There's reluctant hero Jason Statham, a deadly villain, exotic European locations, car chases, hot action and .. of course there's a girl
With insulting action sequences and a tacked-on love scene, the movie quickly veers into a downward spiral.
As a fan of Statham and the Transporter series, it's a massive disappointment. The story makes no sense, and there aren't even very many fight scenes.
Transporter 3 looses much of it's charm for taking itself a little too seriously. Also, Natalya Rudakova is really annoying. Nice to see François Berléand back again and Robert Knepper makes for quite a good bad guy but the only thing I really got out of this film is an answer to a question I've been asking myself
August 17, 2011Super Reviewer
I didn't expect much at all, except some good fight scenes, a loose plot and action. It delivered. If you have seen the first two films, you know what to expect. It's more of the same.
November 27, 2008Super Reviewer
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