Transporter 3 (2008)
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: 4.6/10
Critic Reviews: 28
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 20
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
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Cast
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Jason Statham
Frank Martin -
Natalya Rudakova
Valentina Vasilev -
François Berléand
Tarconi -
Robert Knepper
Johnson -
Jeroen Krabbé
Leonid Vasilev -
Alex Kobold
Leonid's aide -
David Atrakchi
Malcom Manville -
Yann Sundberg
Flag -
Eriq Ebouaney
Ice -
David Kammenos
driver in market -
Silvio Simac
Mighty Joe -
Oscar Relier
Thug Driver -
Timo Dierkes
Otto -
Igor Koumpan
Cop in Ukraine -
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The flashy editing gets on one's wick and no one's going to win an Oscar - but, really, who's complaining? This is straight-up fisticuff fun.
Top CriticI 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.
Who knew a nice blazer could be used as an improvised nunchuck?
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.
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.
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