Unexpected excellence!

Rating: 9/10 (3 February 2003)

When I went to the cinema recently, I planned to go and watch Catch Me If You Can. That was until the person I was going to see it with dropped out and as I was already at the cinema I thought I may as well go and see something - so I went to The Transporter.
Having seen Statham's previous films, notably Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, also Snatch, I was not at all prepared for what I had seen.
The amazing action sequences that roll seamlessly after each other serve to highlight another facet of Statham not seen in those films - that as well as playing a 'cockney's cockney' Statham also has the makings of an action hero.
Carrying himself extremely well throughout the fight scenes, we are swept along with him through the tale from end to end.
The Transporter is fun film made in a time of hidden subplots and needlessly exotic plot devices. A definite one-to-watch.