The Transporter





Surprisingly fun action flick...

Jason Statham did pretty well for his first main role. Can't wait for the sequel.

B-ish.

He was the lead in Snatch beforehand, a movie you really need to see if you haven't yet man. But yeah, this was fun, nothing great, but it got the job done. Kudos to the fight choreographers for getting so much out of the tiny budget they had.B

This is a pretty impressive movie. Statham gives a great performance and the action is EXTREMELY impressive considering the shoe string budget they had.

B+

THE TRANSPORTER is an awesome action film from producer Luc Besson (THE PROFESSIONAL, THE FIFTH ELEMENT). In the lead role, Jason Statham is completely charming and memorable. And the car chases and hand-to-hand combat sequences are well-choreographed and very fun. This is a blast of action from beginning to end and an easy recommendation for action fans.

B+

B-

After all the positive buzz, I was certainly let down when I saw it for the first time. To mention the best thing about it right away: Jason Staham. He's an amazing action hero. He has enough charisma, physical features and roughness to pull off his role. The fight scenes with him are well-choreographed and pretty imaginative. The rest of the movie is very very bland however. Most action scenes are boring (except for the aforementioned fights) and the ending of the movie is downright anti-climatic. Too bad, considering the movie had so much potential.

B

Decent movie. Some details in the plot remained unanswered(why were the asians were being smuggled and to where?) or I just missed that part. Fight scenes work, Stathman is convincing. The movie is a little bit short but its good that way as it doesn't drag on. I thought at the end on the cliff the dad would have to rush off or something due to police, and it would extend 25 minutes longer as he chases down the entire operation once and for all. But the movie just ended there. Good it didn't drag on actually.

I enjoyed it, but nothing really exceptional.

C+/B-

D

I thought the whole thing was pretty dull and silly. Which really isn't a review, but I wouldn't know what else to say on the subject.

Maybe it's just a coincidence, but you seem to be giving out more D's than any other poster I encountered on here (except Box, I suppose).

That's funny! I knew I was giving out a lot of bad reviews, but I didn't realize just how many were D's. My instinct, I guess, is always to give something I though was pretty good around a "B+" and stuff I hate around a D, unless it's truly, uniquely painful.

And the reasons for the majority of bad reviews are a couple, but it's largely because I'm always more inclined to want to write a negative comment than a positive; bile and anger is, I think, much more fun to type.

Plus, I'm just not a fan of a lot of these.

Where are the C's? hehe

Well C's and C+'s are movies that I am, on some level, indifferent to. So I guess it's hard to work up the energy to write about them, due to all my apathy.

Ah, I see your point. : )

I was surprised with how good it was. Much better than the sequel, there's no comparison between that cartoon and this movie which is a solid, well crafted action flick. It reminded me of 1980s style blood and guts action flicks, like Commando, though better than most of them. The Transporter wasn't trying to be anything great but for what it was trying to do, it did it just right. As Lecter says above though, it's really a showcase just for Statham, who did great in the action scenes and had real charisma too, more than Van Damme, Seagal or Norris ever had. He just needs to now follow Arnold's lead and aim a little higher, make some action movies with better scripts and production values. Imagine a movie like The Island with him in it, that might have worked.

On a side note, they really need to come up with a genre name for films like this. "Action" is too broad and includes everything from Raiders to Van Damme.

Statham was great. With some very cheesy moments (Did he actually outrun an airplane?)

The fight scenes are great, and Statham is going to break out soon hopefully.

B+

The sequel was a big letdown.

The scene with him kicking people using the bicycle pedals was inspired.

After the great chase scene in the beginning, I lost interest. I love Statham, but even he couldn't make up for the rest of the movie.

The best shot in the movie was the trailer shot hands down, when the guy looks throuh the peephole and and Statham kicks the shit out of the that door. Best shot of 2002 in my opinion.

I call these films "straight-forward action" which distinguishes them from The Matrix and Terminator and Indy.

Incredibly dull and poorly acted.

5/10 (C-)

this movie is boring, the first time I watched it I fell to sleep.

C

This still stays a great action flick specially because Jason Statham is so good in this. He pulls off those car chases really nicely and the action scenes are great because of him. Shu Qi is decent enough and these two definitely carry the movie. The movie outside of these two and a few scenes with the police officer falls apart and the comic timings don't work here enough.

B-