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88The best movie Steven Seagal never made. Except that Statham, while just as marked for death, is harder to kill.
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83A blending of international film sensibilities -- France meets Hollywood meets Hong Kong -- with a very cool anti-hero protagonist.
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80Immensely exciting and funny.
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80A poke in the adrenal gland -- obeys the first law of action movie-making by quickening the heart and dazzling the eye.
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75Kinetic, meaningless and fun.
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75A thoroughly satisfying mix of mayhem and mindless fun.
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70There's plenty to like here, especially for connoisseurs of the action genre, and there's also plenty to make you wonder whether Besson and co-writer Robert Mark Kamen scribbled their screenplay on a batch of Marseilles cocktail napkins and then lost one or two.
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63Too much action brings the movie to a dead standstill. Why don't directors understand that? Why don't they know that wall-to-wall action makes a movie less interesting -- less like drama, more like a repetitive video game?
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63This balls-to-the-walls action/adventure makes the average James Bond film look like something by Eric Rohmer. It’s high rent Steven Segal - fights, explosions, and more fights, but with a flair.
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63This is a film where there isn't the slightest doubt about the dramatic outcome. But the marketing will be a cliffhanger.
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63Cut above this genre's usual industrial sludge, even when the chops and kicks are too fast to follow.
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60What'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.
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60The plot doesn't rate as high as the quality of the bodies in fast, furious motion. What counts in The Transporter isn't the wafer-thin story about smugglers -- it's the way Martin kicks open a door, fends off a couple of axes and uses a perfectly ordinary sport shirt as a weapon.
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60Entertaining but forgettable action flick.
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58Will Statham make it as an action hero? Hard to say. His personality makes Vin Diesel look positively debonair.
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50Muddles through as a film so uninterested in character, it doesn't bother assigning names to them.
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50Sreams its devotion to style over substance with slick action sequences, fast cars and breathtaking stunts.
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50Another big, dumb action movie in the vein of "XXX," The Transporter is riddled with plot holes big enough for its titular hero to drive his sleek black BMW through.
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50A slick, sexy little package with fast cars, big explosions, dazzling locations in the south of France, a trip-hop score, and about as much plot to fill a thimble.
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50Sadly, the last 40-odd minutes are essentially one fight, pushed to the point of absurdity.
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40If anything, The Transporter isn't ludicrous enough; only one scene (a hand-to-hand showdown in the middle of an oil slick) reaches the inspired, delirious comic heights of the best Hong Kong movies.
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40American audiences will probably find it familiar and insufficiently cathartic.
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40So second-hand and disposable is it in every respect.
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33It's like the worst movie Jean-Claude Van Damme never made.
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20It takes perverse genius to make an action film this stupid.
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Kills time between car chases and martial-arts bouts with random scuba-diving footage apparently culled from producer–co-writer Luc Besson's "The Big Blue."
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0That the movie becomes silly isn't necessarily a problem, but it also becomes tiresome, degenerating into a series of martial arts interludes -- everyone unaccountably leaves his guns at home.
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Positive: 26 out of 35
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Mixed: 2 out of 35
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Negative: 7 out of 35
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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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