Total Letdown

Rating: 4/10 (17 October 2002)

If you go to see the Transporter with hopes of seeing something similar to "Leon the Professional" or "The Fifth Element", you are in for a complete disappointment. The plot of "The Transporter" is WEAK and the action is completely un-inspired. You can see much better fight sequences from many of the standard action movies available (Matrix, Kiss of the Dragon) without the ultra cheesiness that came with this movie.
The heroine was an annoying character that became even more annoying due to her "random" transitions between english and mandarin. Don't worry, her dialogue wasn't worth subtitles so we didn't miss out on any translation.
Throughout the movie it seemed like Luc Besson was deliberately attempting to minimize the kill ratio in this movie, JUST to maintain a PG-13 rating (i.e. throwing a knife in between a persons legs vs. in his chest). Unfortunately in his bid to attract the 13 year olds, he alienated everybody else who had more than two brain cells and was able to vote.
The opening car scene is nothing more than a bad knock-off of the chase in Ronin.
EH!