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Generally favorable reviews- based on 70 Ratings

  • Starring: Jason Statham, Matt Schulze, Qi Shu
  • Summary: Dangerous complications ensue when a former U.S. Special Forces soldier-turned expatriate mercenary is hired to kidnap the feisty daughter of a lethal Chinese cook who's smuggling his fellow countrymen into France.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 27
  2. Negative: 4 out of 27
  1. 88
    The best movie Steven Seagal never made. Except that Statham, while just as marked for death, is harder to kill.
  2. 80
    Immensely exciting and funny.
  3. 60
    What's most disappointing is the almost utter lack of humor -- In the mindless action sweepstakes, however, there's still enough here to place The Transporter above big-bang gibberish like XXX.
  4. It's like the worst movie Jean-Claude Van Damme never made.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 27 out of 37
  2. Negative: 7 out of 37
  1. This movie was action packed. Jason Statham really proved his acting skills in this movie. The second part was not nearly as good as this one. Looking forward to seeing part 3 instead. Expand
  2. Outrageous and hilarious. Both 1 & 2 are parodical in many of the scenes which would be physically impossible in real life. The stereotypical unrealistic hollywood action goes so far that it becomes very apparent that the film isn't being serious. Expand
  3. KDS.
    8
    The Transporter series of films are a tongue-in-cheek take on the stereotypical action/thriller genre. The action equivalent to horrors "Scary Movie" series. The films are fast paced, over the top and extravagant throughout. Statham is serious at all times and doesn't let on to the fact that he is playing an archetypal action hero, ignorant to the immensely ridiculous nature of his actions, which gives the film a much deeper and darker sense of humor. The films highlight the absurd nature of action films by excessively exaggerating every element that make up the action genre to a point of obvious mockery. Many of the famous action scenes that have graced cinema screens are copied and ridiculed in this excessively exaggerated way. Expand
  4. The action sequences are good, but in the end "Transporter" is a standard movie that uses the same tedious blockbuster formula.

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