I liked it better when it was called LICENCE TO KILL!

Rating: 2/10 (26 November 2003)

THE TRANSPORTER is a schintzy action movie with nothing notable about it except for two things: first, its non-acting star, Jason Statham, who, even though he seems to have the right moves to become the next Jean Claude, looks more like a concentration camp survivor than anything else. And second, the ending, which, remarkably, is an almost scene by scene copy of the ending in the James Bond flick, LICENCE TO KILL. I mean, there are homages and then there are ripoffs, and the ending in THE TRANSPORTER is a total ripoff of the ending in the 007 movie. It's unreal. I'm surprised Brocoli corp & MGM/UA didn't sue.
During the climax, in both films, there are two trucks transporting illegal goods, with the villains in two cars driving behind the trucks. In both films, the hero flies over the moving vehicles in a crop-duster and lands on one of the trucks. In both films, the hero battles with the driver of one of the trucks and gains control of it. In both films, the cars try to shoot the hero by driving next to the trucks. In both films, the hero ends up underneath the truck and his shot at by the villain in the cars with machine guns, etc. There's no need to go on. The whole thing is ridiculously similar. The scenery even looks similar in both films.
Except for a couple of ok fighting scenes, THE TRANSPORTER was an almost complete waste of time.