|  | Director: Olivier Megaton
Actors: Jason Statham, Robert Knepper, Natalya Rudakova, François Berléand, Jeroen Krabbé
Studio: Lions Gate
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Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
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Running Time: 104 Minutes
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Theatrical Release Date: 2008
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 Fulfilled Expectations.. January 27, 2009
Jearold D. Ulin (OKLAHOMA CITY ROCK USA)
My daughter and I quite enjoy all the Transporter films- and the 3rd installment is no exception.. The relationship between Frank and the Inspector make this film and all work (dynamics).. Add a European love interst and a few over the top car chase scenes.. We all can agree this is a charactor we care for.. Awaiting Transporter 4..
The Explosive Environmentally Friendly Transporter December 21, 2008
Amanda Richards (Georgetown, Guyana)
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
Frank Martin: Do I look like a man who came half-way across Europe to die on a bridge?
Short Attention Span Summary (SASS):
1. Frank Martin (Statham) has his fishing trip interrupted when there's a package to be delivered.
2. This time he's wearing a bracelet that's to die for - that is, once he and his car are more than 75 feet apart at any given time
3. Not one to learn from his last movies, he proceeds to break all his rules yet again
4. His package proves to be pretty, pouty, petulant and a pain in the Audi
5. This time it's the environment at stake
6. Usual impossible driving feats follow, plus Statham gets to take his shirt off (Would you, could you, on a train?)
7. Awkward romantic scene makes you wish they wouldn't
8. Rather predictable ending
Statham wears his Transporter role comfortably and stoically, Francois Berleand returns as Inspector Tarconi, Natalya Rudakova plays said package, while Robert Knepper oozes slime as the main baddie.
Good entertainment if you're into cars, slick driving and fast and furious action regardless of plot.
Rated: 3.5 stars
Amanda Richards, December 21, 2008
The franchise is dying December 6, 2008
Brian Reaves (Anniston, AL USA)
The first Transporter movie was great. The action sequences were amazing, and it made Jason Statham a true action star. Then the second one came along and we had the racing scenes twist reality a little too far (flipping a car in mid-air so a bomb on the bottom can be snatched off by a conveniently located crane hook?). Now this third installment of the series comes along and we are shown just how far you can twist things. Sink your car in the bottom of a lake, deflate its tires, then pull it out and see if you can just drive it off. Not bloody likely.
Don't get me wrong, Jason is every bit the action star. When the fight scenes start, I think he does a great job. I say "I think" because the POV on the camera changes literally every 2 seconds when a fight scene starts so you have trouble keeping up with anything happening. I have no idea why they would go to such trouble to choreograph a fight scene and then make it impossible to tell what is going on in the process.
Statham is an awesome fighter and has the dark charisma that makes it fun to watch, but it's a shame this particular franchise keeps falling further and further into the absurd. If they do make a Transporter 4 (and with a different director, I wouldn't mind if they did), I hope they simply make it fighting and racing--no magic driving off bridges onto moving trains and junk like that.
This one is all right to see, but I can't recommend it too highly. The first remains the best.
Do Not Step Away From the Vehicle December 3, 2008
Chris Pandolfi (Los Angeles, CA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
"Transporter 3" is an action film in every sense. A brain isn't required to watch it, and I have a feeling there wasn't much of a brain at work when making it. Does that make it worth seeing? Not really. I'll be the first to admit that mindless action can be a fun, harmless distraction. Consider this summer's "Wanted," a film I recommended not for its story, but for its stylish comic book excess. It was meant to be preposterous. "Transporter 3" doesn't have the same appeal. It feels forced, contrived, and desperate, as if the filmmakers knew right from the start that they didn't have much to work with. Maybe it's become tiresome to once again watch Jason Statham play the exact same role. Or maybe it's the fact that the plot is paper-thin, awkwardly humorous, and oddly derivative of older James Bond films. It could be any number of things. All I know is that, even for something that's purely escapist, it isn't trying very hard.
There are, however, a few interesting ideas at work. Having moved from Miami back to the South of France, professional Transporter Frank Martin (Statham) has the odds stacked against him when an American assassin named Johnson (Robert Knepper) forces him into moving a package from Marseilles to Odessa. The package: A beautiful, if sulky, Ukrainian woman named Valentina (Natalya Rudakova), the kidnapped daughter of Leonid Vasilev (Jeroen Krabbe), the head of his country's Environmental Protection Agency. In order to ensure compliance from both Frank and Valentina, Johnson has each fitted with a special bracelet that will explode if they step more than seventy-five feet away from Frank's car, an Audi A8 W12. But you know Frank--he doesn't even follow his own rules, let alone rules that are imposed on him. So just imagine all the eye-popping visuals and impossible stunts that are in store for you.
Here are some examples. (1) On a long road in the middle of nowhere, Frank is speeding away from a pursuing car. Up ahead are two slow-moving eighteen-wheelers, which, for reasons known only to the filmmakers, are going in the same direction while occupying both sides of the road. In order to escape, Frank has to go between the trucks. But how can he when the gap is so narrow? Somehow, he manages to tilt his car to one side, balancing it only on the left-side wheels. (2) After driving his car into a lake, Frank uses the air from the tires to inflate large orange balloons, which, of course, returns the car to the surface. After he somehow gets the engine restarted, he drives to a bridge, zooms off, and lands on top of a speeding passenger train, where poor Valentina is in Johnson's evil clutches.
Yes, it's all in the spirit of fun. Even so, something was missing. I couldn't suspend disbelief as easily as I could for films like "Wanted." It could be due to the character development, which is not normally associated with mindless action films. Consider Valentina, always moping, always aloof, always thinking about death. Yet at the same time, she yearns for Frank's affection. I think it all began when Frank found himself in hand-to-hand combat with a group of Johnson's thugs in the middle of a mechanic's garage. In that particular moment, Frank's fighting style can essentially be described as an aggressive striptease, his jacket, tie, and shirt removed at one point or another. Needless to say, Valentina liked what she saw. She uses it against him later on after grabbing the car keys, exiting the car, and moving away; she won't give Frank the keys back unless he removes his shirt.
And as for Frank ... well, there really isn't much that can be said. Twice before he's been a monotone, wisecracking, testosterone pumping, seemingly indestructible action hero, and he remains one in this new film. Of course, the fact that he's always so serious and professional doesn't stop him from falling for Valentina, which is hard to understand given the complete lack of chemistry between them. It probably would have been better had writers Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen hadn't made an attempt at character development. Don't expose Valentina's frailty or even her uncanny ability to tell Frank where in Europe to find the best food. And don't have her and Frank fall in love. Love is too deep and meaningful for a man that transports things for a living.
The comedy relief--for lack of a better term--mostly comes from the interactions between Frank and his long-time friend, Inspector Tarconi (Francois Berleand). At the start of the film, they have a spirited debate on whether Jerry Lewis was funnier than Dean Martin. Tarconi, true to his French upbringing, believes Lewis is a comedic genius. Frank takes the opposite approach: "Anyone can fall down and get a laugh, but a real genius does it while drinking and smoking." This is, we eventually discover, a parallel to a later observation made by Tarconi about why Russians are always so morose: "I remember reading Dostoevsky and thinking, `Don't these people ever laugh?'" Maybe they do and maybe they don't. What does it matter? It's an amusing line, although I wonder why there needed to be a sense of humor at all. Who made it a rule that action films had to be funny in order to be entertaining? Normally, all you have to do is give me something good to look at. Unfortunately, for everything "Transporter 3" could have been as an escapist action film, it just didn't live up to my expectations.
far fetched ut liked it December 3, 2008
Michael J. Aman
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
i liked all 3 but to me as far fetched as they all ar i thought part 3 was a tad bit deeper thant he first 2andthough far fetched i though the plot was better than part 2 and the action affects better than the first one
as far fetched as it was, seemsi though it was good, no movie of year but something most men would probaly like i heard rumoer he was asked to be the next xxx dunno though
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