The cooks made a fantastic broth!

Rating: 10/10 (14 October 2002)

I thought that THE TRANSPORTERwas flowing with coolness. Jason Statham
made a great leading man. He had a very smooth performance. He was very
honorable, he never lost his cool,and another unique thing about him was that he never killed anybody unless he seriously had no other choice. It was a
change from other movies where the good guy just kills all his enemies. Plus, he was VERY impressive with his martial arts. He was so good at it, he could
probably beat Keanu Reeves in a fight. (Or even have a better chance against
Jet Li than he did before in THE ONE.)
People say Shu Qi was annoying in the film, but I thought she was cute. Her
performance was very fitting to her character in the film, so it6 made sense that she wasn't a confidant, Julia Roberts type of character.
Corey Yuen's best modern work can be seen here. He actually did a better job
with the action scenes here than in KISS OF THE DRAGON. He didn't even
have to make blatant references to his other works in this film. His ideas were much more frsh this time. It made me think of the days of RIGHTING WRONGs
and FONG SAI YUK.
Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen have also written their best screenplay
since THE FIFTH ELEMENT. The movie had a very European feel to it, and no
Hollywood fluff got in the way. One way to sum this movie up is to say that it's a French/American Kung Fu film. It's the best action film I've seen this year.