Unbelievable... literally

Rating: 5/10 (18 August 2010)

Just watched Transporter 1 and 2 so this review will be about both. And I won't be able to explain my point without some spoilers. Both movies are equally as good, or bad, depending on your opinion, and I suspect the same about the third, which is unusual for sequels.
Transporter is a good action flick if you can suspend your disbelief, and I mean really suspend. Here are the spoilers to prove my point. The transporter is fighting off a couple dozen baddies in a fist fight. After he knocks them all out he reaches in one of their pockets and takes out a gun. Why didn't they use their guns? Who knows. The filmmakers didn't even bother to make up some far fetched explanation like having the boss tell them not to use their guns because it will attract attention. Don't worry about it, just shut off your brain and enjoy the action.
The transporter paraglides out of a plane and catches up to a truck going down the highway and lands on the roof. Another time he catches up to a helicopter in a car.
Here's a zinger that had me laughing out loud. The Transporter is driving with a bomb under his car which is about to go off. What would you do? Well I would get out as fast as I can and run. What does he do? He finds some perfectly placed ramp that lifts one side of the car up and rolls it around so that a crane hook can just catch the bomb sticking to the bottom and pull it off just as it explodes while the car continues to roll 360° and lands on its wheels and he keeps driving.
Here's another great laugh. The transport and the head bad guy are fighting it out in an airplane. The pilot is killed and the plane goes out of control into a nose dive. You're thinking well here come some unbelievable stunt where now he knows how to fly a plane and manages to pull it out of a spin that even expert pilots can't do. But you'd be wrong, because it's even more over the top than that. The plane actually hits the water head on. Neither of them are in a seat or have a seat belt on. Yet the plane simply hits the water, stops completely intact, then sinks, with both passengers alive and swimming in the water that starts filling the cabin. Think of a bus falling into the water off a pier and that's was a jet nosediving into the water at 600mph looks like. Oh god, I can't stop laughing even now.
So if you're an action junkie these films will really appeal to you. Lots of car chases, fist fights, and gun play. If the silly factor turns you off at all then run the other way, or maybe get in your car and fly through the air in a couple barrel rolls away from it.