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Transporter 2 (2005)

September. 02,2005
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6.3
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PG-13
| Action Thriller Crime
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Professional driver, and former Special Forces officer, Frank Martin is living in Miami, where he is temporarily filling in for a friend as the chauffeur for a government narcotics control policy director and his family. The young boy in the family is targeted for kidnapping, and Frank immediately becomes involved in protecting the child and exposing the kidnappers.

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VividSimon
2005/09/02

Simply Perfect

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Listonixio
2005/09/03

Fresh and Exciting

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CommentsXp
2005/09/04

Best movie ever!

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Frances Chung
2005/09/05

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

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The Movie Diorama
2005/09/06

We all have guilty pleasures, not the good kind. The type of guilt that resembles 'The Room', 'Jennifer's Body' and even 'Birdemic: Shock and Terror'! Alright alright, not that bad...but Transporter 2 is just so much fun that I launch myself from the sofa, find a hose and flail it around like I'm Jason flipping Statham. Can't find a hose? I just use a pole instead. Frank Martin, for reasons unbeknown to us, is now the personal driver of a rich family. A sinister man, who already lives the lavish lifestyle, wants money and infects the family with a virus? But he injected the antivirus into himself? Yeah...me neither. The story is basic, simple, dumb, pointless and simply a means to set up the action set pieces. The acting is monotonous, diabolically dull and has as much heart as a kettle...(literally the first thing I could think of). The visual effects, and there are some, are incredibly noticeable and outdated. The script is functional...that's it. It's far too short and moves along at a rushed pace. Yet...somehow, somewhere...in the bottom of my hollow shadowy heart...I love watching this. Every. Damn. Time! The action set pieces are so exaggerative and absurd, that I literally just go with it. An undeniably sexy Kate Nauta in lingerie shooting two silenced sub-machine guns at a doctor's clinic. Statham annihilating henchmen with a hose, filling it up which strangles all those entangled in it. Statham flipping his car towards a crane hook which rips off a bomb with seconds to spare. Statham leaping from a car travelling at 6283681mph onto the wheel of a private jet before it crashes and burns. Statham dramatically getting his face licked by Nauta. Statham driving a car. Statham kicking ass. Statham speaking. Statham, Statham, STATHAM! No one else could pull this off, not even Liam Neeson. I'm taking my personal enjoyment into the rating, I don't even care. Can I watch this again now please?

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yvonne-91633
2005/09/07

This style of fast-paced, all-action film, really appeals to both of us, when we want a stress free night in front of the television and we don't want to think too hard about the complexities of a complicated or thought provoking story line.Along with other actors in this genre, Jason Statham has become another firm favourite to deliver the goods in a flamboyant, slightly tongue-in-cheek, no nonsense way, which is highly entertaining and watchable.Not quite as intense, the story line reminded us both very much of the Denzel Washington film 'Man On Fire', although of course, poor 'Creasy' didn't live to fight another day!

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rowmorg
2005/09/08

Two tired themes in this picture: a kidnapping (yawn) and an evil virus (red) and its remedy (blue). The credits list a fights choreographer and a car-scenes choreographer and essentially that's what the film is: their scenes glued together with a little bit of dialogue. Sorry, I don't find Miami, Fl, at all glamorous any more and it's so hard to make a BMW (or even a Maserati) speeding down its streets look exciting that the choreographers have to reach really deep for special effects and super smash-ups. The Asian-style combat scenes are all equally ridiculous because the fighters never have guns or are disarmed within seconds. One scene is pretty inventive with a fire-hose, I must admit. But the scenes with the ridiculously costumed Lola (Kate Nauta) and her skinny bod are grotesque. She never hits Frank (Jason Statham) with her twin super-pistols, although she is dead-eyed with everyone else. Finally she gets pinioned on a spiky thing (no idea what it was), definitely dead. The struggle between Frank and the bad guy on the 'plane at the end was sheer lunacy/fantasy and went too far for me to suspend disbelief, I'm afraid. Not bad, but only for a rainy afternoon.

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freemantle_uk
2005/09/09

The original Transporter film was a modest success and lead to Jason Statham joining a new generation of action stars. A sequel was commissioned and we ended up getting something a lot louder and dumber.Frank Martin (Statham) has moved to Miami becoming a chauffeur for a wealthy family's young son, Jack Billing (Hunter Clary). The husband, Jefferson (Matthew Modine) and wife Audrey (Amber Valletta), have marital problems, leading to Frank being very protective of the boy. But Jack becomes the target for Gianni (Alessandro Gassman), a mercenary who wants to kidnap the boy, forcing Frank into action.The first Transporter film was basically a simple B-Movie with an MTV style to it: the sequel has become an over blown exploitation film. Whilst it cannot be argued that The Transporter was a grounded, realistic affair, there was still some basis in reality: the sequel is a comely overblown actioner that is more comic, treats physics with contempt and goes into the realms of sci-fi. The only real improvements are some of the fight scenes are a little clearer due to less use of quick cut editing and Statham drops the American accent.Transporter 2 is a much more ridiculous sequel with its action sequences and plotting and it almost feels like the film was made by people who have not even seen the first one: but it was directed by Louis Leterrier who was the artistic director of the first film and Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen stay on as the writers. The action sequences are solid for the most part, being well shot and choreographed affairs. But there is too much CGI in some of the driving sequences and the complex.The change in director is very noticeable: Leterrier uses a brighter colour pallet, having a much more stylized approach and tonally more lighter and comic. Leterrier had a fondness for using flashy pans of the Miami, had much more of a willingness to use CGI and slo-mo and had moments of attempting Matrix style bullet affairs. This is a film that wants to be as ridiculous as possible and there is a much more exploitative nature to the film with the main henchman being a biniki clad woman who looks like she is a stripper. This was Leterrier's directional debut and he went on to make The Incredible Hulk and Never You See Me, but this film was a weak start to his career.Transporter 2 has a fine cast but most of them are wasted. Statham is of course solid as the lead, Frank Martin was the character that made his career, and he shows off his action chops once again: but his character has become much more super human in this sequel. Modine and Keith David were under used, particularly David who had a small role as a US Marshall and the film does not use his screen presence or his distinctive voice. François Berléand from the first film has been reduced to no then comic relief and his appearance in the sequel was just so the two Transporter films were tied together. The only improvement was Gassman as the villain who at least had some menace to him and felt like a villain compared to Matt Schulze in the first film.Whilst The Transporter was never a cinematic masterpiece it did at least seem to treats its audience will a little respect: the sequel is a loud, idiotic and obnoxious follow-up and does not ever belong in the same universe. It is overly comic, overly stylised nonsense that has some good fights to save it. Plus the use of a Jamaican taxi driver was a pretty racist characterchure.

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