Irrational action

Rating: 4/10 (17 August 2003)

Well, I wouldn't have expected this kind of screenplay from the man who directed Fifth Element, Leon, Nikita and the Big Blue. If one would summarize the film in one sentence it would be: irrational action from the start. The plot was really illogical. For instance, why on earth would someone want to pay 40 000 dollars to someone to transport a daughter of a boss (who runs a criminal organization) to another place in the same country? Why didn't they do the `transport' themselves? It never came out why they wanted to transport the daughter to another place in France in the first place.
I don't like about films that contain impossible stunts either. What do you think about the following stunt: the key figure in the film jumps ten meters from a moving truck to another and performs a somersault from top of the truck keeping hold of the roof (?!) and smashes the windscreen kicking the bad guy inside the truck. What's the fun of watching a film like that? The film let's you think that the good guy must be a god, because he can perform actions what humans are not possibly able to do. Therefore, you (the viewer) think that there is absolutely nothing that can happen to the hero and there is no point watching the film, since you already know what's going to happen. Such stunts are logical when a robot from the future or someone in the matrix does them but humans aren't supposed to be able to do such actions. I think though that the actor, Jason Statham has talents and I hope he will be seen in more classy films in the future.
For your information directors and screenwriters: viewers are intelligent creatures and don't appreciate that you underestimate them. The films like The Transporter may interest viewers for a while, but in the long run they never make it in the big league.