Great action, not-so-great story

Rating: 9/10 (15 April 2003)

Firstly, I loved Cory Yuen's work on "Kiss of the Dragon" and anything Luc Bisson is involved with, esp. "The Professional." The fight scenes in "The Transporter" were as amazing, some even more so, as I expected. However, I think the PG-13 rating hurt the movie. The only reason to see a movie like this is for the sex and violence, and if it got an R-rating, like "Kiss of the Dragon" the fight sequences and cheesy romance bits could have gone further. There's really no great story or character development here, and that's OK with me, because the movie was just plain entertaining. Jason Statham is a better actor, a better fighter, and just plain sexier than Vin Diesel. He proved he can act in "Snatch" and here he proves he's got the movies of an action star, now I just want to see him in something with the best of both worlds - a great script and great choreography. Hopefully, this'll happen for him soon, as he's really great.