Great Film: The Transporter
An excellent action movie!
All action movies should strive to be this imaginative! OK, the plot was
not particularly intriguing, but what action movie's actually is? But the
plot was secondary to the action, it only served to make the bad guys bad
and the good guys good. The rest was up to Jason Statham's considerable
fighting talents.
There were some unbelievable yet jaw-dropping stunts, a terrific fight scene
in oil, and some great car chase scenes. There were no smarmy one-liners
making light of good action sequences as is too often the case in
American-directed action flicks. The hero was cold, yet compassionate. He
didn't kill unnecessarily, but when he had to, he was ruthless. There are
many great action sequences, some so unbelievable you have to just shake
your head and remember that action movies are not supposed to be based on
reality. There is even a great shot of the hero jumping off a speeding semi
while it races over a bridge onto the back of a bus going perpendicular to
the truck under the bridge!! I mean, come on! It would never happen, but I
have to give credit to the stunt coordinator who imagined the
possibilities.
There is another hilarious scene where the hero chases down an airplane on
foot, hijacks it, jumps out of the plane at great altitude in order to land
on the back of a speeding transport with a conveniently located borrowed
parachute! I am glad all crop dusters carry such indispensable equipment
and that it is so easy to land on the back of a truck speeding down the
highway at 130 KM/hour.
All in all, 90 minutes of sheer enjoyment. Even with the predictable
ending, I have to highly recommend this movie. If you can suspend belief
for a little while, you will be rewarded.
Cast
- Wall Street played by Matt Schulze
- Lai played by Qi Shu
- Mr. Kwai played by Ric Young
- Frank Martin played by Jason Statham
- Tarconi played by François Berléand
- Leader played by Doug Rand
- Boss played by Didier Saint Melin
