Transporter 3 (2008) Movie Review, Trailer, Film Still and Poster

France, UK 2008
Director: Olivier Megaton
Cast: Jason Statham, Natalya Rudakova, Robert Knepper, Jeroen Krabbé, François Berléand, Alex Kobold
Rating: PG-13
Language: English, French, Ukrainian, Russian, Hungarian
Release Date: 26 November 2008 (France)
Running Time: 1 hour 44 minutes

The Movie Review

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Transporter, Transporter 2, Crank (2006), Death Race (2008) and another Transporter... You watch that consecutively with no pausing, then you would feel this impulse to do every single thing lightning fast, you would snatch the pizza out of the pizza delivery boy in pickpocket move, give him the bucks by tossing it to his palm in a cool ninja style and say things like "Keep the change boy". Yeah, thanks to the manic performances from Jason Statham. The question is will Transporter 3 surpass the success of its predecessors?

Transporter 3 is no different with the other two, which means...action mayhem. It still tells the story of Frank Martin, a freakin' fu*kin driver who really knows how to hit the perfect spot on people's as$es. Frank Martin (Jason Statham) is now getting into trouble for not completing his job. Frank wakes up with an electronic bracelet wrapped around his left wrist, a bracelet that goes ka-boom if Frank goes 75-feet away from his car. Accompanied by a Russian chick Valentina (Natalya Rudakova), Frank has to deliver a package to a designated place ordered by his new client named Johnson (Robert Knepper). Of course, the job won't be easy as Frank also got competition from the agents sent by the Ukraine government who are also seeking the package. This is due because Johnson devilish act to make the Ukrainian government comply to his request to dump tons and tons of toxic waste into Ukraine.

I don't wanna say this, but why is everything seem to be the Statham's version of last year Hitman (2007)? Gee…, but still, and however it's an action flick, I do not want to be a nitpicker, since it will ruin the fun of adrenalin rushing through my veins upon seeing this movie. But then something struck me again, but why didn't I feel the same excitement as I did when watching Transporter and Transporter 2? Sigh, it turns out arguably because everything is intertwined by an uninteresting story. Feels the need to think about garbage anyone? I do, but not while sitting on the theater.

The fights scenes are not that interesting, the one by the piano is good but the rest merely feels too generic, and Natalya's script that force her to by cynical most of the time is not an interesting character to get to know with. And you do know what happen next to a macho guy and a hottie in a movie right? Yes they kiss, with strange kind of kissing. Sorry if that a spoiler, but I honestly don't think that it's a spoiler, besides it's not interesting anyway. However, the pyrotechies have done a good job in blowing some cars up.

I do respect one thing from Transporter 3, what a clever idea to use a bicycle as a means of action instead of always the same-o bikes and cars and cars and bikes. Even though only for a short moment, still it blows a bit of fresh air of difference. And using European cities to this movie's advantage is cheesy. If I'm not remember this wrong, we got to see Marseille, Munich, Budapest and Odessa. But then again I always like European cities. However as the end credit rolls, I knew I do not always like Transporter.

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